Theatre is a strange organism. To the uninitiated ones it may look like an alchemist‘s workshop. Various people in it mix the unlikeliest of ingredients to produce a rare thing. A staging which would allow the actors and the audience to experience that exceptional feeling – that they have right here, right now witnessed (and co-created) an unrepeatable artistic experience.

Through the project The Nutcracker for the Blind, we aim to make ballet accessible to people with complete or severe visual impairment by combining the senses of touch and sound.

The Son of Poor Parents is one of the best-known stories from the collection of Pavol Dobšinský, a key figure in documenting and preserving Slovak folk literature.

Don Quixote – a masterpiece of the world ballet repertoire – is based on the stories from The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes.

The collaboration between the Ballet of the National Theatre Košice and world-renowned choreographer Akram Khan will culminate in the presentation of two of his productions in one evening. "For every dancer in our ballet company, this project will be a significant addition to their professional artistic life," says the Director of Ballet NDKE, Šimon Stariňák.

Exupéry's Little Prince still surprises today with its purity and gentle understanding of the world in which we live. It serves as a sort of contemporary bible, which, through the perspective of childlike eyes, identifies our flaws and simultaneously offers solutions for dealing with them. In a superficial world, full of uncouthness, destruction of traditions, and senseless wars, it manages to look with love, understanding, and hope.