Jarmila Jeřábková Award/New Europe Festival 2007

Report of the project realisation

The year 2007 of the Jarmila Jeřábková Award was one of the most successful and it fulfilled the idea of its founder to provoke co-operation of young choreographers from “new Europe”. The New Europe Festival took place at the Duncan Centre Theatre introducing 16 choreographies by young artists from Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Poland, Romania and Greece. Two evenings were devoted to the public presentation of the final round of the competition Jarmila Jeřábková Award. During the opening evening, which preceded the competition, last year’s winners performed their new works. Among them were Márta Ladzjánszki and her choreography Flame, Dora Hoštová and her Bio-Graf and Dagmar Chaloupková with “X”.

Participants in the competition for Jarmila Jeřábková Award are obliged to make two pieces – a free composition and a choreography on music of a set composer, one of the Czech modern artists. This year it was Luboš Fišer. Jarmila Jeřábková Award winner this year are Klára Alexová, Czech Republic, for her duet Hidden Rooms (together with Tereza Lenerová) and a solo piece K13OMNATA. The international jury appreciated her ability to create a tense atmosphere, the sensuousness of her expression and the overall dance-theatrical conception. The second prize was awarded to Katarina Papageorgiou, Greece, for her solo Ostia and a duet Noose. It was a mature interpretation and choreography, especially in the work on Luboš Fišer’s music (15 prints after Dürer’s Apocalypse) where her movements anticipated the dramatic attacks of music creating thus situations full of tension. Milena Ugren Koulas, Cyprus, was awarded the third prize for her piece While walking. She presented herself as a new Bacchante, possessed as well as having her body under control. The evening of the award ceremony was enriched – as usual – by an exclusive concert of Luboš Fišer’s music performed by the violinist Ivan Štraus, Miroslav Sekera on the piano and the Zemlinsky Quartet.

The young choreographers´ interest in Jarmila Jeřábková Award has again increased especially because the competition was enlarged to Jarmila Jeřábková Award – New Europe Festival and also because of the compulsory part of the competition, where choreographers take inspiration from Czech composers of the 20th century and present their pieces in front of an audience.

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