Jana Andrsová

Jana Andrsová (Večtomová; 8 August 1939 – 16 February 2023) was a Czech ballerina and actress. In 1957 she graduated from the Dance Conservatory in Prague and began to work with the Vitus Nejedly Army Art Ensemble.

Laterna Magika From 1959 to 1978, Andrsová worked with Josef Svoboda's avant-garde multimedia company Laterna Magika, initially as a chorus girl and later (beginning in 1973) as a prima ballerina. they are described as "a Czech theatrical spectacle that first came to international attention at the Brussels World's Fair." In 1966 Andrsová starred in Alfréd Radok's choreographed multimedia production Laterna Magika: Variation 66, The Opening of the Wells, cowritten by Forman in collaboration with Jan Švankmajer.

Retirement and death In retirement, Andrsová continued to make stage appearances. In 2014 (also a 2016 reprise) she performed as elderly virtuous heroine Madame de Rosemonde in the National Theatre Ballet world premiere production of Valmont, choreographer Libor Vaculík's adaptation of Les Liaisons dangereuses.

Andrsová died on 16 February 2023, at the age of 83.

Filmography Strakonický dudák (1955) – wood nymph Jak se Franta naučil bát (1959) – miller's daughter Veronika Rusalka (1962) – Rusalka (part sung by Milada Šubrtová) Hoffmannovy povídky (1962) – Olympia Dvanáctého (1963) – dancer Svět je báječné místo k narození (1968) – herself Bludiště moci (1969) – ballerina Kočičí princ (1978) – mother