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Ballet of the National Theatre in the 1970’s and 1980’s
Čižmáriková, Monika ; NĚMEČKOVÁ, Elvíra (advisor) ; GREMLICOVÁ, Dorota (referee)
This thesis is focused on and is summarizing events in ballet of the National Theatre in Prague in 1970's and 1980's, specifically between 1969 and 1989. It's dedicated to personalities on positions as directors of ballets - Jiří Němeček, Emerich Gabzdyl and Miroslav Kůra, who, besides managing the ballet, worked as choreographers too. There were also other choreographers in the theatre aside from the above mentioned, namely Jiří Blažek, Antonín Landa, Vlastimil Jílek, or Daniel Wiesner. I describe individual seasons and specific works, which were introduced in premiere. Furthermore in my thesis I deal with extraordinary generation of interprets who were performing here, for example Michaela Černá, Marta Drottnerová, Vlastimil Harapes, Jan Kadlec, Lubomír Kafka, Jaromír Petřík, Michaela Vítková, Hana Vláčilová, Aneta Voleská, Pavel Ždichynec and many others. I put everything in the context of the political era known as „normalization“. Foreign groups and individuals, who gave guest performances in the theatre are also described. My primary sources of information were mainly: “Archiv Národního divadla” (the National Theatre's archive), “Ročenky Národního divadla” (the National Theatre’s yearbooks) and contemporary periodical „Taneční listy” (Letters of dance), from which I used mainly critiques and reviews for premieres. Another valuable source were personal testimonies of artists, who performed in the National Theatre at that time: Mahulena Křenková, Jiří Němeček ml., Astrid Štúrová, Hana Vláčilová and Daniel Wiesner.
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Petr Weigl as a director of ballet films and productions
Čižmáriková, Monika ; NĚMEČKOVÁ, Elvíra (advisor) ; WIESNER, Daniel (referee)
The thesis describes and summarizes dance work of the important Czech director Petr Weigl who was the first dramaturge and director of ballet in our country, and who earned great international success and appreciation for his films. He made many dance movies and collaborated on numerous productions in National theatre in Prague. Among the films were for example Pas de quatre, Víly (Fairies), Bolero and more. In my work I focus both on the films of Petr Weigl, which I describe and briefly analyse, and on his theatre productions, Vášeň (Passion), Radúz a Mahulena (Radúz and Mahulena) and more. I put a big emphasise on the ballet Romeo a Julie (Romeo and Juliet) from 1971. Weigl collaborated with the choreographer Miroslav Kůra on this ballet and it was an unusual success. In the end of my work I also deal with the problem of theatre direction, especially in dance performances, where I argue about lack of using directors in ballet. I see the core of my thesis in many testimonies of eyewitnesses who collaborated directly with Petr Weigl - Vlastimil Harapes, Michaela Vítková, Aneta Voleská and itself Petr Weigl himself, These personalities were a big source of facts and remarks, that are nearly forgotten in these days. I also use period reviews and critics of various Czech periodicals, for example Taneční listy, Právo, Lidová demokracie and much more in my thesis.
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