Petr Tyc

Petr Tyc studied classical dance the Prague Dance Conservatoire and choreography at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts at professor Pavel Smok’s class. Following his studies in Prague he underwent a study programme in Merce Cunningham’s studio in New York. In years 1983–1992 he performed as a dancer in Pavel Smok’s Prague Chamber Ballet and in years 1992–94 in the leading British ensemble Rambert Dance Company in London. He cooperated with leading world choreographers including Jiří Kylián, Gerhard Bohner, Richard Alston, Siobhan Davies and Christopher Bruce. Since 1994 he has been working as a freelance choreographer, dancer and pedagogue. He created and realized many projects and choreographies including Stories for Not-telling (an international project created in cooperation with British choreographers Sarag Warsope and Paul Old, 1994), Mariken from Nimeque (choreography for a television treatment of an opera from the cycle Plays about Marie by Bohuslav Martinů. This production was awarded a special prize at a festival of film and television production The Golden Prague, 1995), Ithaka 2.888 (implementation of a graphical score “Odysseia” from Anestis Logothetis which was performed in cooperation with the Agon orchestra on the occasion of the Prague Spring Festival 1996 and the festival of contemporary music the Warsaw Autumn, 1995–196), Four Biblical Dances (on Petr Eben’s music, written for church performances. In 1998, the piece was studied for Czech television and in 1999 it was put on during the Prague Spring Festival, 1996), Movements and Immobilities (an international project in cooperation with American choreographer Victoria Marks. The performance was one of the productions proposed for the Production of the Year in 1997), Himself, Multiplied (a solo dance performance implemented in cooperation with Petr Zuska, Nina Vangeli and Simon Sandroni, which represented Czech Republic at the EUROPALIA festival in Belgium, 1998). The opera production of Philip Glass’s The Fall of the House of Usher in the Prague State Opera in his direction and choreography has been awarded the Opera production of the year 1999 and was nominated for the Alfred Radok award in 1999. In year 2000, Petr Tyc lead the dance ensemble in F. X. Salda theatre in Liberec for which he created the production The Little I Know of Sylphids and choreographed Sarah had been Ninety on Arvo Pärt’s music.