Dancers are taking tentative steps back to work, giving socially distanced performances outdoors in Germany, France and the Czech Republic.

By Sanjay Roy,

“Tamas Detrich, director of Germany’s Stuttgart Ballet, had been planning two big programmes of modern ballet for the summer season when the coronavirus crisis hit. “We were on tour, and had to return to Stuttgart,” he remembers. “Then one of our company tested positive. We shut down the whole ballet and went into quarantine. During those first two weeks, we still had around 10 known cases of coronavirus.” The experience clearly still haunts him, and it’s a scenario that he never wants to return to. His steps back towards live performance have been cautious.”

Other interviews and information from:

• Frédéric Mazelly, artistic director of Parc de la Villette in Paris

• Yvona Kreuzmannová, founder director of Tanec Praha international festival of contemporary dance in the Czech Republic

• Markéta Perroud co-director of Prague’s Landscape Festival.

Source: The Guardian News & Media