For the public: We connect audiences and artists
Each of us has different life experiences, but we share a common vision and values: an interest in art and all the things we share. We offer unique artistic experiences throughout Czechia, in Prague and, above all, in Žďár nad Sázavou, where we organise the KoresponDance Festival and are currently building the Cultural and Creative Centre Vysočina.
Come take a look
We invite you to join us for a performance, or a presentation and extract from a “work in progress” that offers a glimpse behind the scenes of artists at work. Art can offer inspiration at any stage of life. Still uncertain that art has the power to transform lives? Join us and see for yourself!
Encounters with artists
The freedom to ask questions: performances are followed by moderated discussions with the artists. Are you interested in the inspiration behind the creation of a specific work or the different steps of the creative process? If so, you won’t want to miss our Choreographic Cafes and Choreographic Fora.
Choreographic Forum 2024
The Choreographic Forum is a moderated interdisciplinary discourse among experts, professionals, and enthusiasts in contemporary art. The rise of unconventional and participatory forms in performing arts opens up the question of how artists think about the role of general public as well as their own role while preparing or playing an artistic piece. Perhaps audience also strives to define its own role when attending a performance?
Get creative and take part
If you want to get involved in the creative process yourself, you can take part in community projects. You can also visit our workshops or regular lessons: it is not necessary to be a professional, all dancers are welcome. Dance is a pleasure at any age and level of experience. If you are looking for our programs for children, click here.
Připojte se! Tanec v galerii: A Fancy … nechte se aktivovat barokem
(Místa jsou už obsazena.) Zapojte se do uměleckého projektu, kde se prolnou kreativní pohyb, tanec a barokní umění s architekturou na Hradčanech.
Festival Korespondance 2026
4 June | Nové Město na Moravě – Horácká galerie
11 June | Jihlava – DIOD
26 June | Žďár nad Sázavou – Dům kultury
17–19 July | Zámek Žďár nad Sázavou
Since 2008, we have organised the KoresponDance International Festival of Contemporary Dance, New Circus and Physical Theatre. We focus on site-specific projects, the intersection of artworks with architecture and collaboration with local communities. KoresponDance brings unforgettable experiences to the Žďár Estate, always in the second weekend in July. An introductory program takes place in Prague in June and, from 2024, in Nové Město na Moravě. The family atmosphere draws thousands of visitors to the Estate each year. Come and experience it for yourself!
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Tom Bailey: Tragedy of Anthropocentric Art. How to Co-create with Trees?
Isn’t art, by definition, a human activity for human audiences? In Vigil, British theatre-makerand choreographer Tom Bailey attempted to embody 26,000 extinct species – though, of course, he failed. Yet in this failure lies the question: can we ever escape our human point of view, or only see it more clearly? Recorded at the KoresponDance Festival 2025 in Žďár nad Sázavou, this conversation explores performing for and with trees, beyond human creativity, technology as empathy, playing outdoors versus indoors, and the practical challenges of creating truly green art.
Camille Mutel: A Gesture Between Life and Death. A Relationship Appears
What separates life from death – a gesture. French choreographer Camille Mutel follows gestures in daily life, in ritual, in the countryside – tracing each movement until it becomes more than itself… We bring an interview with her from the international KoresponDance Festival 2025 in Žďár nad Sázavou where Mutel talks about her work drawing from tea ceremonies and French country tradition, and ends up with her twisting approach to collaboration with non-artists.
Ginevra Panzetti & Enrico Ticconi: Dangerous Beauty of Flags
A fabric dances in the air. Your body mimics. Your chest expands, your gaze lifts, your breath deepens, your spine straightens, you feel pulled toward something greater than yourself. It’s beautiful, yet a technology of persuasion that bypasses critical thought and plant political affects directly into our bodies. In their performance AeReA (2019), which recently unsettled audiences at the KoresponDance festival, Ginevra Panzetti and Enrico Ticconi (IT/DE) strips flags of their national insignia to reveal their “plastic essence”. However, this raises questions: if the performance reveals the mechanisms of political spectacle, does it simultaneously reproduce them?
Dávid Somló: Choreography of Sound, Art of Restraint
Hungarian artist Dávid Somló makes do with little. He collects twigs in the forest himself, then simply lets viewers balance them on the smallest point of their finger knuckles. Holding fragile nature in balance, all shrinks to one point in time and space. It’s an economical gesture – unsustainable in its instability, yet profoundly sustainable. The participatory performance Delicate Balancing of Twigs emerged as a work in progress within the Green Streets of Europe project, where artists develop methods for more sustainable performance art. Both ethos and aesthetics lie in restraint and modesty.
