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The Documentation Department collects and makes available information about the practical activities of professional theatres and theatre companies in the Czech Republic. It continues to add to its archive additional programmes, printed materials, press cuttings and photographs. Its services are available to the wider specialist public, providing information about current events in the field of theatre.
The Bibliography Department catalogues articles about Czech and foreign theatres that have been published in newspapers and magazines, as well as professional literature issued in the Czech Republic. All articles about Czech studies and selected foreign theatres are recorded from chosen foreign periodicals. The collection of the Bibliography of the Theatre Institute documents entries of these articles in card catalogues and in the computer database. (Library and the Documentation Department of the Theatre Institute also have collections of their own articles.)
The primary goal of the Library of the Theatre Institute is to collect, process, preserve and make available all books and periodicals about Czech theatre, as well as provide a selection of theatre literature from abroad. The information system of the Library is incorporated into the structure of the Theatre Institute, and is directly connected to the activities of the Departments of Bibliography and Documentation.
The Library of the Theatre Institute is a member of the SIBMAS (International Association of Libraries and Museums of the Performing Arts)
The Publication Department of the Theatre Institute publishes specialist theatre literature, including the series Czech Theatre and World Theatre - original and translated works in the area of theatre history, theory and critiques. The Department works with theatre schools providing literature used in their educational curriculum. It also collaborates with larger publishers during its major publishing activites (such as History of Theatre, Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology, and Opera Lexicon.) It publishes two editions of plays: Contemporary Plays (translations of new foreign texts) and Plays (anthologies of classic works from the 20th Century); and also prepares the Czech Theatre magazine intended for those Eglish speaking foreigners who are interested in Czech theatre.
Since 1993, the Department for Czech Theatre Studies has been a research department of the Theatre Institute, focusing on Czech theatre history. Prior to that period of time, it was part of the Institute for Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
The Department of International Relations commissions concepts, ideas, dramaturgical and production cooperations with Czech and foreign theatre practitioners and theoreticians for the realisation of international and domestic projects, festivals, exhibitions, seminars and conferences. The Department also coordinates the Czech activities of international non-governmental theatre organisations and is broadening the relationships with specialists and specialised institutions from the entire world. A specific activity of the department is Scenis (www.scenis.org) - a database of web sites of various performing arts organisations in Central and Eastern Europe and some Asian countries.
A specialised Book Shop with the possibility to make purchases on-line. We have a courteous and well-informed personnel who are ready to assist you in your choice of literature about theatre (including foreign titles), literature associated to related fields, and magazines, as well as CDs, and audio and video cassettes.
World-renowned Czech dancer, choreographer and ballet director, Jiří Kylián, created this foundation in 1990 in Den Haag, Holland. The goal of the Jiří Kylián Foundation is to introduce our professional dance community with the recent developments of contemporary dance abroad, as well as promote our own Czech dance artists and their creations to the rest of the world.
Is an information and consultation centre of the European Union Programme, directed toward the support of international projects. The main goal of the Czech Secretariat is to ensure the participation of Czech cultural subjects in this programme.
The program of Czech Music 2004 should therefore become a welcome contribution, both for deepening national musical culture and creation, and for cultural representation of the Czech state abroad.
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