Kateřina Novotná

Biography

Kateřina Novotná was born on August 8, 2006, and from an early age has combined talent with determination and hard work. After taking her first ballet steps at the Dance Conservatory of the City of Prague (2018–2022), she accepted an offer at the age of sixteen to study at the Ballet Academy of the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. There, under the guidance of professors Simone Geiger Liebreich, Natalia Hoffmann, David Russo, and Rita Soares, she continues to develop both her classical technique and her contemporary movement vocabulary.

While still a student she has appeared three times at the matinées of the Heinz-Bosl-Stiftung in the Bavarian State Opera (2022–2024) and, during a summer intensive with Nederlands Dans Theater (2024), worked on Crystal Pite’s Ten Duets on a Theme of Rescue. That same year she was invited for a short professional placement with the Czech National Ballet in Prague.

Her growing repertory bridges eras and styles: Ondine in the pas de trois Die Najade und der Fischer, the first variation from Bournonville’s Napoli, Gamzatti’s solo from La Bayadère, virtuoso excerpts from Coppélia, Esmeralda and Paquita, Kinsun Chan’s neoclassical J.I.T., the pizzicato solo from Raymonda, a solo section of Jiří Kylián’s Gods and Dogs and an original piece by Jiří Pokorný.

In 2023 she received a scholarship from the Deutscher Bühnenverein; earlier she spent a short study period at London’s Royal Ballet School (2020). She speaks Czech, English and German fluently and has basic French. Ready to channel youthful energy, keen musical phrasing and alert stage intelligence, she now steps onto the professional scene with experience from Prague, Munich and The Hague.