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Jiří Kylián
Czech former dancer and contemporary dance choreographer
Jiří Kylián (born 21 March 1947) is a Czech former dancer and contemporary dance choreographer.[1] He is considered one of the greatest contemporary dance choreographers in Czech history.
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Life
Jiří Kylián was born in 1947 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, to his father Václav who was a banker and to his mother Markéta, who was as a young teenager a dancer-child protégée.
Initially inspired by the acrobatic performances of the Circus Busch [de], Kylián decided to pursue professional ballet training at the School of the National Ballet Prague at the age of 9, after having seen a ballet performance for the first time.[3] Kylián was admitted to the Prague conservatory in 1962.
Here, he encountered one of his mentors, teacher and former dancer Zora Šemberová, "who left a deep mark in Jiří's professional development".[3] At the conservatory Kylián made his fir