FILIP STANĚK
dancer
Trained in dance, acting, and puppetry at the Janáček Conservatory in Ostrava, he spent five years as a soloist with the Ostrava Ballet Company of the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre. His work focuses on dance pedagogy and on the development of his own movement concept SMART BODY. Filip is also active as a writer of articles, essays, and short fiction; his book Křehká struna (The Fragile String) was published in 2020. Based in Prague, he is a member of the contemporary dance company 420PEOPLE and works as a freelance dance educator. He studied philosophy at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University.