Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Dancing House/ Fred and Ginger House

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Ginger’s legacy lives on in her many movies while the simple mention of dancing duos immediately congers a vision of her and Fred Astaire which to this very day remains the most iconic dance partnership of film. It is that same legacy that lives on in it’s very own iconic physical structure~ The Dancing House or Fred and Ginger House.


Officially the Nationale -Nederlanden building in Prague, this incredibly unique
structure built in 1996 by Frank Gehry, Eva Jiricna and Vlado Milunic created
the appearance of a man and woman dancing-, Fred the stone portion of the
building and Ginger the bending glass. Dancing House is specifically
symbolic to the people of the Czech Republic. It is built atop the sight of a
home that was bombed during WWII and especially represents
Czechoslovakia’s transition from communism to democracy after the
Velvet Revolution.


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Dancing House has “21 hotel rooms, a cafe and panoramic terrace”. So
if you ever make it to Prague you can stay at the Dancing House and
give it a whirl on the terrace!


An extra thank you to our museum guest who informed us of this
lovely connection to Ginger.


-Audrey L Elder

Manager~The Owens-Rogers Museum

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