ABSTRACT
There was no professional contemporary dance scene in the Czech Republic 1 until 1989. Things were much the same in the other Central and Eastern European states, where the communist powers were overthrown at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s. A non-normative approach to dance and total liberalism in the concept of the body are tied to a democratic and liberal atmosphere, while in dictatorships they are decidedly suppressed. 2
