About 420people
The contemporary dance group 420PEOPLE, named after the Czech country code, was founded by Václav Kuneš and Nataša Novotná at the turn of the years 2007/2008, after they returned home from one of the most prestigious dance theatres - Jiří Kylián's Nederlands Dans Theater. The tandem’s vision to build their own contemporary dance group in Prague bring the brand 420PEOPLE into being. The company has now been a stable player on the Czech and international theatre and dance scene for 17 years. Since 2018, artistic director and choreographer Václav Kuneš has taken over the leadership of the company.
420PEOPLE is a fusion of outstanding dance quality, professionalism, sophisticated playfulness and true daringness in presenting a sheer vocabulary of contemporary dance, improvisation as an inherent part of creation and an unorthodox dialogue with the audience in the form of Q and A sessions, workshops and other activities.
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Project
DANCING HISTOR(Y)IES
The Dancing Histories project will bring together 13 institutions in eleven European countries. Over the next few months and years, we will work with our dance partners to educate, train, and share new experiences and insights into contemporary dance, performing arts, art production & management, and more. "Creative Europe" program (Project id: 101099222)
21. 5. 2025
Open Rehearsal 42+PEOPLE: WHERE
Goethe-Institut Tokyo, Hall | Tokyo
As a Czech-Dutch-German collaboration among the EUNIC Tokyo network with Goethe-Institut Tokyo & Czech Centre Tokyo & company 420PEOPLE presents an open rehearsal of their dance piece “WHERE” – an intimate duet created within the 42+PEOPLE project for dancers aged 42 and above.
27. & 28. 5. 2025
Y / why
La Fabrika | 19:30
The new choreography by Václav Kuneš and 420PEOPLE. Y / why wraps up this choreographic journey by delving into the heart of human experience. It’s a performance that questions, provokes, and ultimately invites the audience to find their own answers. "Why look for the meaning of things by dancing? Why not?”
6. & 7. 6. 2025
WHY THINGS GO WRONG
Studio Maiselovka | 19:30
The performance choreographed by Sylva Šafková and performed by the new duo of dancers Simona Machovičová and Viktor Konvalinka raises, through contemporary dance, the theme of the (un)moral, ethically challenging nature of human behaviour..."on the underlying reason why when everything that was going right - all of a sudden goes wrong."
Don't miss the project 42+PEOPLE
Venue: Studio Maiselovka
Don’t miss the project 42+PEOPLE and the premiere of new choreography by Václav Kuneš & Saburo Teshigawara and other performances: WHERE (choreography: Václav Kuneš & Helena Arenbergerová), SOFTER SKILLS (choreography: Edan Gorlicki). 42+PEOPLE combines all aspects of contemporary dance with an intergenerational dialogue featuring dancers aged 42+.
