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The sousedská is a semi-slow Bohemian dance in three quarter time. It has a calm, swaying character and it is usually danced in a pair. [1]The dance was used by some Czech composers, including Antonín Dvořák, who used it in his Slavonic Dances (the Sousedská is the fourth and sixth dance from his Op. 46, and the eighth dance from Op. 72).
The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (Czech: Akademie múzických umění v Praze, AMU) is a university in the centre of Prague, Czech Republic, specialising in the study of music, dance, drama, film, television and multi-media. It is the largest art school in the Czech Republic, with more than 350 educators and researchers, and 1500 students.
The stylised form of the dance was often used by Czech composers such as Antonín Dvořák in the first and eighth dances from his Slavonic Dances, Piano Quintet Op. 81 and 6th Symphony; [2] in his Czech Suite, fifth movement; [3] in his Terzetto for Two Violins and Viola, third movement; and by Bedřich Smetana in The Bartered Bride and in his ...
A polka dance. Polka is a dance style and genre of dance music in 2 4 originating in nineteenth-century Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic. Though generally associated with Czech and Central European culture, polka is popular throughout Europe and the Americas. [1]
FAMU forms one part of AMU, alongside the Theatre Faculty (DAMU) and the Music and Dance Faculty (HAMU). [3] In 2011, the school had 112 faculty members and 350 students across bachelors, masters and doctoral programs, including 80 foreign students. [3] As of 2014 the school had 450 students studying in Czech and 100 in English. [7]
There are a number of instruments associated with Czech folk music, which add to its distinct sound – violin and the double bass; instruments specific to Bohemia and Moravia such as bagpipes , shepherd's pipe, dulcimer and trumpet. All of them are still in active use by the folklore groups during their shows. Folk dance from Czechia
The Masaryk School is architecturally undistinguished, a faceless cube set among Cicero’s bungalows, but every brick was laid with loving care by immigrants determined to pass the Czech language ...
2010 Prize of the Theatre Magazine( Ceny Divadelních novin) (The best theatre production and choreographic work of the year at Czech Republic for the "Firebird" and for the "Miraculous Mandarin" ballets) [2] 2015 (The Czech Dance Association's Award: the best choreographer of the year at Czech Republic after the ballet of "About Kafka") [3]