VERA ONDRASIKOVA

After graduating from the arts grammar school, she went on to study choreography at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. As a dancer she has taken part in projects by Czech and foreign choreographers. She won the Most Outstanding Dancer Award at the Masdanza Festival in the Canary Islands and the First Prize for group work. Her performances have been presented at Biennale de la danse in Lyon, Aerowaves in London, Aerodance in Amsterdam, Cynetart in Dresden and other festivals. She created the choreography for Havel's Antikódy at the New Stage of the National Theatre (Laterna magika production, directed by Braňo Mazúch), which was also performed in Washington, Miami and New York in 2013. In 2017 she worked as a performer with Japanese choreographer Min Tanaka in A body performance at Archa Theater in Prague.

In December 2015, her most successful performance GUIDE premiered and it 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 international Aerowaves network. GUIDE launched this prestigious festival in Aarhus, Denmark, where it was seen by over 300 foreign promoters.

Thanks to the Aerowaves platform, this distinctive performance has received invitations to many prestigious festivals, such as One Dance Week in Plovdiv, SIDance in Seoul, V4 Dance in New York and New Orleans, Israel Festival in Jerusalem, International Dance Festival in Birmingham and the prestigious Unidram in Potsdam. It has attracted viewers of all generations in Europe, the USA, Israel and South Korea. It has achieved more than 50 reruns and almost all of them were sold out.