Publications from the Pavel Šmok Institute Still Available
Are they missing from your dance library? The lavishly illustrated books published by the Pavel Šmok…
Pavel Šmok Institute
The Institute’s primary mission consists in collecting and digitising all the available archival documents, professional articles, photographs, and video recordings that relate to the activities of Studio Ballet Prague and Prague Chamber Ballet. The archive, available both in physical and digital form, is designed for current and future performers and creators, students of art conservatories or academies, as well as experts and general public interested in the history of Czech contemporary ballet.
The Pavel Šmok Institute in Prague was founded in 2021 under the name Pavel Šmok Study and Research Centre.
A new study and research room, which is currently being built in the recently refurbished former Branik brewery in Prague, will offer an archive of documents, photographs, publications, video recordings, and other materials from 1964 to the present day. The Institute also administers the Ballet Prague Heritage online database, which contains the “best of” items from the physical archive and will gradually cover the repertoire of both Ballet Prague and Prague Chamber Ballet, including selected documents about the choreographies and leading figures associated with the two ensembles.
