CV BARBORA KOHOUTKOVÁ Principal dancer, Guest Ballet teacher, Instructor Gyrotonic® & Gyrokinesis® Gyrotonic®Pre-trainer

CONTACT: Address: Pod Hájem 329 250 66, Zdiby-Brnky, Prague-east Czech Republic Mobile: 00420 777 666 922 ( Czech Republic) Email: [email protected]

DATE OF BIRTH: 29.10.1978 in Prague

EDUCATION: Prague Dance Conservatory 1989-1996

OTHER EDUCATION: since 2009 Gyrotonic® and Gyrokinesis® certified instructor Gyrotonic® Pre-trainer

ENGAGEMENTS: 1996-2002 Finnish National Ballet 2002-2003 Bavarian State Ballet 2003-2004 Boston Ballet 2004-2008 -John Neumeier 2009- 2010 Ballet Master at the National Theater in Prague 2009- International Guest Dancer and Teacher 2009- Owner and instructor of GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS® in Art of Movement Studio in Prague 2013-2014 Aalto Ballet Essen 2014- Freelance guest teacher

COMPETITIONS, Bronze medal 1994 in Bordeaux, AWARDS: Gold medal National Ballet Competition 1994 in Brno, Silver medal 1994 in Varna, Grand Prix 1994 in Paris, Prix espèces 1995 in Lausanne, Gold medal and Grand Prix 1995 in Helsinki, Gold medal and Grand Prix 1996 in New York, Fazer Prize 2000 in Helsinki, 2002 Philip Morris Best Artist Award in Helsinki

REPERTORY: with FINNISH NATIONAL BALLET: Ben Stevenson"Cinderella" - Cinderella; Pierre Lacotte "La Sylphide" - La Sylphide; "Romeo and Juliet" - Juliet, "" -Tatiana, Olga; Natalia Makarova after Marius Petipa "La Bayadère" - Nikija; "The Sleeping Beauty" - Aurora; Vladimir Bourmeister "The " - Odette-Odile, Pas de quatre and the big swans; George Balanchine "Serenade"; Heinz Spoerli "The Midsummer Night's Dream" - Titania; Jorma Utonien "Ballet Pathétique" - The Blue Ballerina; Sylvie Guillem "" - Gisele ; Javier Torres after Petipa, “The Sleeping Beauty“ - Aurora; Kenneth MacMillan, “Manon“ - Manon; Wayne Eagling and Toer van Schayk “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King “ – Clara

with BAVARIAN STATE BALLET: George Balanchine "Brahms-Schönberg Quartet" - solo in the third movement; John Cranko "Onegin"- Olga; Ray Barra "Raymonda" - Raymonda and Clémence; "The Swan Lake"- Charlotte; "Don Quijote"- Dulcinella; John Neumeier "The Midsummer Night's Dreams"- Hermia

with BOSTON BALLET: George Balanchine "Stars and Stripes" - Second regiment; Rudolf Nureyev "Don Quijote" - Mercedes and Queen of Dryads; Daniel Pelzig, Bruce Marks, Sydney Leonard, Mikko Nissinen, Anna-Marie Holmes, Gianni di Marco "The Nutcracker" - Sugar Plum Fairy, Snow Queen, Dew Drop, Arabian dance; "The Swan Lake" - pas de troix in the 1st act; Val Caniparoli "The Lady of Camellias" - Nicette; "Sonata for two pianos and percussion"; Mark Morris solo in "Drink to me only with thin eyes"

with HAMBURG BALLET in choreographies by John Neumeier: "A Cinderella Story" - a foreign Princess, Cinderella's Mother; "The Sleeping Beauty" - Aurora, Princess Florina, Moon Fairy; "Windows to Mozart" - Bäsel; "The Lady of Camellias" - Olympia; "Nijinsky" - Eleonora Bereda and Mathilda Kschessinskaja; "The Nutcracker" -Louise; "Preludes CV" - Elizabeth; "Requiem", "Romeo and Juliet" - Luciana and Rosalinda; "Midsummer Night's Dream" - Hermia; "Songs of the Night" - Nocturnes

by other choreographers: Natalia Makarova after Marius Petipa "La Bayadère" - Nikija, Gamsatti, First solo in pas de troix Shades; George Balanchine "Jewels" -Emeralds, Frederick Ashton "La fille mal gardée" - Lise

CREATIONS: with Boston Ballet: chor. Val Caniparoli - Solo in "Sonata for two pianos and percussion" with Hamburg Ballet: chor. John Neumeier - Nocturnes in "Songs of the Night" with F.X. Šalda Theater: chor. Jiří Horák Charlotta in “Charlotta“

OTHER Jiri Kylian "Nuage"; Michail Fokine " Les Sylphides"; "Dying Swan"; REPERTORY: Marius Petipa "Talisman ", Marius Petipa "Le Corsaire pas de deux" George Balanchine "Tchaikovsky pas de deux"...

GUESTING: in Prague, Pilsen, Milano, Tokyo ( World Ballet Festival 2002 and 2004), Osaka, Nagoya, Moscow, St.Petersburg, La Baule, Toledo (Ohio USA), Munich, Arnheim, Paris, Verona, Todi, Caserta, Florence, Palermo, Rome, Spoleto, Jakarta...

PARTNERS: Roberto Bolle, Friedemann Vogel, Inaki Urlezaga, Denis Matvienko, Semyon Chudin, Roman Lazík, Alen Bottaini…

TEACHING Teaching ballet classes at : EXPERIENCE: 2008- continuously National Ballet of Prague, 2009- continuously Finnish National Ballet 2008- continuously Laterna Magica in Prague, 2008- continuously Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, 2010 School, 2004 Harvard University in Boston, 2012, 2014, 2015,2017 Beijing Dance Academy 2012 National Ballet of China in Beijing 2014 Tokyo Ballet 2010- continuously Norrdans 2015- continuously Vienna State Opera Ballet 2011- 2012 Assistant of a choreographer for Peter Zuska’s Mahler symphony No 1 in

Teaching ballet classes and repertory in summer courses of Sergei Savochenko in Tokyo in 2003 Daria Klimentova’s Masterclasses in Prague in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013 ProArt festival in 2012 in Brno, The 3rd and 4th International Workshops in Nagoya and Osaka in 2013, 2014 Jakarta Summer Intensive Ballet Workshop in 2014 Teaching and dancing at First International Ballet Gala in Jakarta 2015 Teaching at Prague Ballet Intensive 2017 My own summer program in Prague 2017 Teaching at Palermo Summer Intensive 2018 Teaching at Prague Ballet Intensive 2018 Open classes summer intensive in Prague 2018 Teaching at Ballet Arts Summer Program south of Czech Republic 2018

CURRENTLY: Owner and instructor in Art of Movement Studio in Prague Guest ballet teacher with various ballet companies