- Leona Kvasnicová
Leona "Qaša" Kvasnicová (*1972) is a Czech
dancer ,choreographer and dance teacher.Life and studies
Kvasnicová was born in 1972 in
Brno . As a child she was interested ingymnastics . She studied atJAMU inBrno . She studied also inAmsterdam Jazzshowmusical school and Rotterdamse Dansacademie, theNetherlands .Dance career
In 1987 she joined a dancing group P-4. She established her own club called "Crazy Dancers" in 1989. Together with Michal Popelka she discovered the Belgium style called
New beat as a predecessor ofdisco . In the early 1990s she danced with a professional group UNO in ABC Theatre inPrague and went on tour inGermany . In 1992 she danced in the project "Cutting the diamonds" by the Swiss choreographer Parwin Hadinia inBasel . She won a first post forDiscodance formation inProstějov and six years later she was nominated the best dance-director inOlomouc . She took part in the dance movie Šakalí léta of the directorJan Hřebejk . In 1996 she started her second dance group called "Freedance Group". She became a member ofBratislava dance theater and "Balet Praha". She acted in Paris in 2001 and after she returned to Prague, she danced in several projects of Jan Kodet, Lenka Ottová and several commercial choreographers. In 2003 she started her third dance group called "IF".Choreography
She made
choreography for her dance groups, for tens of movies and TV shows. She was a choreographer for Miss ČR 1994 and 2008, theTV Nova ‘s 10th anniversary celebration (2004),Česko hledá SuperStar II and III, and Sazka 50th anniversary. She made a lot of theatre musicals choreographies: "Galileo","Excalibur", "Elixír života" in Prague, "Kabaret" inPlzeň , "Balada pro banditu" in Brno.
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