Ballet

Ondrej Šoth, Zuzana Mistríková: THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK

DOSKY AWARD 2017 IN THE EXTRAORDINARY DEED CATEGORY IN THE AREA OF THE DANCE THEATER IN THE 2016/2017 SEASON

Important Notice: AFTER THE PERFORMANCE BEGINS, ACCESS TO THE AUDIENCE IS NOT POSSIBLE!

The true story of a Jewish family that hid in Amsterdam during the Second World War, but just before the end of the war, fell victim to Nazi assassinations. Anna Franková captured life during hiding in her diary. The ballet will be performed for the first time on the stage of the reconstructed Small Stage of the State Theater in Košice. The project is of an experimental character and is intended for a more demanding viewer.

Annelies Marie Frank hid with her family during the Second World War at the age of thirteen, for two years in the back of a building in Amsterdam. However, just before the end of the war, she fell victim to the Nazi regime. Anna recorded the events from June 12, 1942 to August 1, 1944, and recorded everything that happened around her, including each day in hiding. When, in March 1944, she heard an invitation on Orange Radio to provide her notes in the collection for historical purposes, she began transcribing her notes in book form. She managed to rewrite a substantial part of the original letters. The notes end with a text that Anna recorded just a few days before the soldiers found her and her family and dragged her to a concentration camp. However, the notes were preserved, and after the war, Anna's father, Otto Frank, who was the only one to survive the war, was responsible for publishing them.