Eva Blažíčková (born 1943) was a pupil of the Czech dancer, choreographer, and teacher

Jarmila Jeřábková Jarmila Jeřábková (8 March 1912 – 21 March 1989) was a Czech dancer, choreographer and teacher. She is considered to be a pioneer of Czech modern dance, having taught Isadora Duncan's method from the 1930s. Life Born in Prague, she was the ...

; she graduated from the dance department of

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and

Palucca School of Dance The Palucca University of Dance Dresden (german: Palucca Hochschule für Tanz Dresden), formerly the Palucca School Dresden, is a dance school in Dresden, Germany, founded in 1925 by the dancer and pedagogue Gret Palucca who taught until 1990. ...

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(Palucca Hochschule für Tanz). She is currently considered the most prominent Czech follower of Isadora Duncan. In 1972 she took over the studio after Jarmila Jeřábková, forming three dance groups (Chamber Dance Studio I, II, and III) where she worked as a choreographer. In 1990, she founded Dance and Music Education Society (Společnost pro taneční a múzickou výchovu) and in 1992 the Duncan Centre Conservatory where she was the director until 2009. In addition, she founded Nadační fond Isadory Duncan in 1993 and the Jarmila Jeřábková Award (Cena Jarmily Jeřábkové) in 1999. In 2005, she co-founded Vize tance. In 2016 she began the DUNCAN INSTITUT an umbrella organization for the dance studio and an extensive archive containing authentic historical documents from the estate of Isadora and Elizabeth Duncan, Jarmila Jeřábková, and other personalities who espoused the “Duncan ideas”. She is the author of more than fifty choreographies, such as Black and White Tears (1979), Crying of the Beloved (1983–1986), Eufemias Mysterion (1986), Špalíček (2009), and Bouquet (2014). In addition to her active teaching activities in the Czech Republic and abroad, she is also the author of the publication ''Metodika a didaktika taneční výchovy'' (Methodology and Didactics of Dance Education, 2004) and a co-author of ''Taneční a pohybová výchova'' (Dance and Movement Education, 2011). She was also responsible for the 2010 incorporation of the subject Dance and Movement Education into national primary education program.

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