Jan Dvořák´s Jubilee Birthday Celebrations - N. Malíková

For several years, Dvořák was an excellent pedagogue at the puppet theatre academy in Prague, and worked as one of the first pedagogues in the International Puppeteer Institute in Charleville Mézieres. He realized his first exhibit at the Museum of Puppet Culture in Chrudim, and was an indispensable lector of a series of seminars for amateur puppeteers. He is a superb technician, artist, author, designer and director, and has educated many of the Czech Republic’s finest puppeteers, as well as instructed pupils from countries such as Germany, Bulgaria, Norway, Canada and South Africa. All his students, friends and co-workers remember him as the initiator of several significant puppet theatre projects, such as the first international project after 1945 “Janošík”, where he united puppet theatres from Czechoslovakia and Poland.