Věra Ondrašíková & Collective (CZ)

Věra Ondrašíková after graduating from the arts grammar school, she went on to study choreography at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. She won the Most Outstanding Dancer Award at the Masdanza Festival in the Canary Islands and the First Prize for group work. 

She created the choreography for Havel's Antikódy at the New Stage of the National Theatre. She worked as a performer with Japanese choreographer Min Tanaka in A body performance.

Her most successful performance GUIDE has been performed dozens of times around the world and has won a number of awards: the Audience Award, the Lighting Design Award and the Dancer of the Year Award for Jaro Ondruš at the Czech Dance Platform 2016. In 2017 the performance was selected among the 20 most interesting European works within the Aerowaves network. 

It has attracted viewers of all generations in Europe, the USA, Israel and South Korea. In December 2021, her latest performance WITNESS premiered and won the Audience Award.