Barbora Látalová, Zden Brungot Svíteková / OSTRUŽINA z.s.

Barbora Látalová is a dancer and teacher, a graduate of the Duncan Centre Conservatory, where she taught Dance Education to children. She completed an internship at Hunter College of City University of New York, where she studied modern dance and dance therapy at NYU at Miriam Roskin Berger, and also studied dance at the lycée in Prague and movement at the acting faculty of HINT University in Norway. Since 2002 she is a member of the NIE international theatre group. She is the co-author of the dance performance Fg = G [(m₁m₂)/r²] / Dance and Physics, a project that includes interactive workshops for children in schools. As part of the Dance for Schools program she regularly teaches at the elementary school at Havlíčkovo nám. in Prague 3 and at the V Zahrádkách elementary school.

Zdenka Brungot Svíteková is a dancer, choreographer and teacher. She graduated in dance pedagogy at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, then completed her studies at CND Paris, danceWeb in Vienna, SITI Co. in the USA, the Prototypes Fondation Royaumont (FR), seanse HiVolda (N), and continues regularly in the form of various seminars. As a performer, creator or assistant choreographer, she has worked with many Czech and European artists, but also with ensembles from the USA or East Asia. She is interested in overlaps with other artistic fields, especially collaboration with music and the visual artists. Since 2016 she has been working with composer Emanuele Palumbo (FR/I). She devotes herself to her own creation, improvisation and movement research and co-founded the ImproEvents Prague festival (2010 – 2015). Since 2009 she has been in close creative dialogue with Barbora Látalová, with whom she has worked as a performer and co-author on several productions and other activities (DIFFERENT?, Dance About Žižkov!, souHra). She leads workshops and seminars for all ages, has worked as a lecturer in the PONEC Theatre Children's Studio (2010 – 2017) and is an experienced lecturer in art education projects at schools both in the Czech Republic and abroad (workshops connected to performances, Schools Dance project / SE.S.TA, Dance for Schools, project in cooperation with the Lycée Charlemagne in Paris).