2023 - 2025
DANCING HISTOR(Y)IES
Project "Creative Europe" program (Project id: 101099222) | Still running
The project Dancing Histor(y)ies, Binding Communities and Heritage Through Dance, is European project aimed at linking communities and cultural heritage through dance. We are proud to announce the dates of the Dancing Hi(y)stories Festival in 2024. Follow us and explore the latest developments, stories, and updates in our new website.
12. & 13. 12. 2024
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."
12. & 13. 1. 2025
PULPS
Studio Maiselovka | 19:30
The contemporary dance company 420PEOPLE and choreographer and dancer Simona Machovičová present the choreography Pulps. The dance duet, created especially for the Studio Maiselovka venue, features dancers (Simona Machovičová & Jindřich Panský) performing to live music by Václav Havelka.
20. & 21. 1. 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?”
22. & 24. 1. 2025
42+PEOPLE: WHERE
Studio Maiselovka | 19:30
Don’t miss the project 42+PEOPLE and the performance “WHERE”. 42+PEOPLE combines all aspects of contemporary dance with an intergenerational dialogue featuring dancers aged 42+. The pilot performance features the “WHERE” choreography by H. Arenbergerová and V. Kuneš.
6. & 7. 2. 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."
4. & 5. 3. 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?”
19. 3. 2025
THE WATCHER & PLEASE THE TREES
La Fabrika | 19:30
Dance show of the 420PEOPLE contemporary dance group and the rock concert of the band Please The Trees is here! The proven cooperation between Václav Kuneš and Václav Havelka brings again an unforgettable experience. The Watcher is coming!
20. & 21. 3. 2025
42+PEOPLE: SOFTER SKILLS
Studio Maiselovka | 19:30
Don’t miss the project 42+PEOPLE and the premiere SOFTER SKILLS at Studio Maiselovka. 42+PEOPLE combines all aspects of contemporary dance with an intergenerational dialogue featuring dancers aged 42+. The second performance features the “SOFTER SKILLS” choreography by Edan Gorlicki. Cast: Helena Arenbergerová, Andrea Opavská, Veronika Kornová.
22. & 23. 4. 2025
HeArt of Noise
La Fabrika | 19:30
The latest dance performance by the contemporary dance company 420PEOPLE, choreographed by Sylva Šafková, introduces a modern take on futurism in movement, music and set design. The audience will enjoy the best dancers, a water surface directly on the stage and the live sound of the Futurists’ iconic instrument, the intonarumori.
New dance studio opening!
MAISELOVKA STUDIO
Maiselova 4, Praha 1
The studio, located in Maiselova street in the Old Town, is the first formal venue of the 420PEOPLE dance group. The studio offers a wide range of movement activities for the general public according to a regular schedule, while also providing a space for rehearsals of 420PEOPLE's repertoire.
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THROUGH GLASS
Dance film
The dance film THROUGH GLASS, directed by Marek Partyš and choreographed by Sylva Šafková, combines contemporary dance and a visual story that describes the image of distorted reality: “Reflections, angles of view, distorted reality...but if you hold it against a mirror, the letters will go again in the right direction."
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FLAMMABLE MACHINES - the Audition
Dance film
“We’ll call you. Next please!” A trio of promising participants get much further than the Producer ever expected. The twelfth exactly same musical number gets him off his chair. A few hours in and a guy with number 451 is tap-dancing around his head. This is not an ordinary audition anymore. The Producer isn’t sitting safely behind his table wall. Actually…he does sit there still, but these are not tables anymore. And he is not alone. Now it’s an Audition. For life.
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ORĪGĪ
Dance film
The idea for short dance film ORĪGĪ came from the title of an EU project: CLASH! When classic & contemporary dance collide & new forms emerge. Unexpected encounter of three dancers. All of them are very different. Three pairs of shoes. Very different. New people, new situation. Can they adapt? Do they want to adapt? The only thing they have in common is a desire to dance. Is that enough?