Jarmila Jeřábková Award 2006

REPORT OF THE PROJECT
International choreographic competition for original dance works

From 24 till 27 November 2006 at Duncan Centre Conservatory and Duncan Centre Theatre the seventh year of the international choreographic competition Jarmila Jeřábková Award was held.
The participants came from Armenia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Turkey. The international jury awarded artists from the Czech Republic and Hungary. Dagmar Chaloupková from the Czech Republic was awarded the third prize, Marta Ladjanszki from Hungary and Dora Hoštová from the Czech Republic shared the first and second prizes.
The prominent feature of the competition is its obligatory part – a piece inspired by the music by a Czech composer of the second half of the 20th century. This year it was Jan Novák. The closing evening of the competition was an outstanding event where apart from the winning choreographies music by Jan Novák was performed by his daughter Clara Novak, the flute player living in Paris.
The founder of the competition Eva Blažíčková selected Luboš Fišer as the set composer for the next year.
The competition has been organised by the association Jarmila Jeřábková Award and Duncan Centre Conservatory, Prague since 1999. It is aimed at dancers and choreographers up to the age of 35 from the field of contemporary dance and dance theatre from Central and Eastern Europe. So far the competition has been attended by artists from Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Bulgaria, Romania and of course the Czech Republic and Slovakia.