420 PEOPLE

From 2000 – 2002, she worked for the Swedish Göteborgse Ballet company, where among others she garnered accolades as Juliette in the performance of Romeo & Juliette by M. Müller. In the summer of 2002, she returned to the Netherlands, where she became a member of the Nederlands Dans Theatre 1. Until 2006, she worked with the leading choreographers in the world. Dutch critics twice nominated her as the Best Dancer. She was been working “freelance” since last year, collaborating among others with Finnish choreographer Tero Saarinen, soloist at Italy´s La Scala Robert Boll, Sabur Teshigawara from Japan, the Copenhagen International Ballet and with the Dutch C-scope project. Together with Václav Kuneš and Ondřej Kotrč she created the dance company 420people. She also teaches.

Václav Kuneš
Vaclav Kuneš is one of the most successful Czech dancers living abroad. After graduating from the Prague dance conservatory in 1993, he left for the Netherlands and became of member of the Nederlands Dans Theater 2. In 1998, he moved to NDT 1 under the guidance of Jiří Kylián, where he danced until 2004. He has collaborated with a number of leading choreographers, among them William Forsyth, Ohad Naharin, Paul Lightfoot and others. Since 2004, he has been performing as an independent dancers and choreographer. In 2005 and 2006, he collaborated with Sabur Teshigawara and his group Karas in the New National Theater in Tokyo. In 2005, he was nominated for the award of Dancer of the Year in Cannes. He interpreted the roles of a young Nijinsky in the Finnish dance film Vaslav Nijinsky – Invisible Power. As a choreographer he has created several pieces for the Nederlands Dans Theater 2, the Copenhagen International Ballet, Laterna Magika in Prague, the Korzo Theater Den Haag and Station Zuid in the Netherlands. Since 2004 he has also been working as an assistant to Jiří Kylián.

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