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Helena Kazárová (born Hájková) specialises on the dance culture of the past centuries both practically (reconstruction and revitalisation of the dances from written and graphic notation, choreography and movement culture of the chosen period, pedagogical activity) and theoretically (she is the author of the books Barokní taneční formy/Baroque Dance Forms/, AMU 2005, Barokní balet ve střední Evropě/Baroque Ballet in Central Europe, AMU 2008). In the National Theatre she has participated in the performances of Castor et Pollux (assistant of choreography, dancer), Cyrano de Bergerac, School of Scandal (period movement style), Ballet Mania (choreography). She has created and reconstructed many Baroque dances for various prominent music festivals. She collaborated with film and TV (Bathory of J. Jakubisko, This Hot Summer in Marienbad of M.Cieslar), she created choreography for the Baroque operas Giunone placata of J.J. Fux, Scipione affricano il Maggiore of Caldara among others and in operas La forza della virtu of Pollarolo, Astarto of Bononcini and Alcina of Händel she worked out also the Baroque gestures with the singers and some of the operas she also directed. She staged the Rococo ballet La guirlande enchantée of Joseph Starzer at the Baroque Castle Theater at Český Krumlov and at Mnichovo Hradiště Castle Theater in a world premiere after 250 years. In 1997 she founded the Baroque Dance Ensemble Hartig. She is Assistant Professor at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.