Monika Hejduková

Biography

A Prague native, Monika Hejduková graduated from the Dance Conservatory of Prague under Hana Vláčilová and was named the school’s “Best Student” in 2000. As a student she won the Prix Carpeaux (1st prize 2001; 2nd prize 2002), the Audience Prize and the Eurovision Award at Young Dancers Amsterdam 2003.

She joined the National Theatre Brno Ballet in 2003, debuting as Clara in The Nutcracker, and later danced three seasons with the Czech National Ballet, where she drew attention in Petr Zuska’s The Dying Swan and duet Brel – Vysockij – Kryl / Solo for Three.

From 2007 to 2012 she was a member of Bayerische Staatsballett, appearing in Mats Ek’s Giselle, Jiří Kylián’s Gods and Dogs, Petipa/Liška’s The Sleeping Beauty, MacMillan’s Las Hermanas and Cranko’s The Taming of the Shrew.

Returning to Prague in 2012, she became a demi‑soloist and was promoted to soloist in 2016. Her Czech repertoire ranges from Myrtha in Giselle and Carabosse in The Sleeping Beauty to the dramatic Madame de Tourvel in Libor Vaculík’s Valmont. She also dances the Arabian Dance and Waltz in The Nutcracker – A Christmas Carol, the Pas de trois and Big Swans in Swan Lake and the Temple Soloist in La Bayadère. In contemporary works she excels in William Forsythe’s In the Middle Somewhat Elevated, Jacopo Godani’s Reflections on the Fate of Human Forms, Radu Poklitaru’s Rain and Alexander Ekman’s Cacti.

Selected repertoire

• Giselle – Myrtha (Hana Vláčilová)

• Valmont – Madame de Tourvel (Libor Vaculík)

• The Sleeping Beauty – Carabosse (Javier Torres)

• Swan Lake – Pas de trois, Big Swans (Kenneth Greeve / John Cranko)

• La Bayadère – Temple Soloist (Javier Torres)

• The Nutcracker – A Christmas Carol – Arabian Dance, Waltz (Youri Vámos)

• In the Middle Somewhat Elevated (William Forsythe)

• Fancy Free (Jerome Robbins), decadance (Ohad Naharin)

• Rain (Radu Poklitaru), Cacti (Alexander Ekman)

• Brel – Vysockij – Kryl / Solo for Three; Stabat Mater, Chvění, Symphony No. 1 in D major (Petr Zuska)