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INTRODUCTORY WORD OF THE PRESIDENT
- We have printed the first copy of our bulletin in which you can read all about the work of the Society of Professional Ballet Artists since October 2002, when I was elected new President. I hope you will visit our web page regularly and send us your suggestions and comments. Best regards,
SVEBOR SECAK, PRESIDENT
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ANNUAL REPORT 2002-2003:
1) Promotion of the book "125 years of Professional Ballet in Croatia, at the Croatian National Theatre in Rijeka and in Split on the occasion of the new season 2002/2003
2)Our Ballet Society initiatied co-operation with the Croatian Association of Composers and ballet dancers from CNT in Rijeka performed at the International Music Festival in Pula in November 2002.
3) With the help of our Ministry of Culture and the City Office for culture, our Society has been able to send one very talented young dancer Ksenija Krutova to the Vaganova Academy in St. Petersburg to a one year scholarship.
4)For the first time after many years we have achieved that several of our members were granted the status of free-lance artists. With this year´s newly accepted members, we have in total 9 free-lance ballet artists.
5) In Slavonski Brod, the home town of Mia Corak Slavenska, the famous ballerina that lived and died in the States, as an Hommage to her, our Society has promoted the book "125 years of Professional Ballet in Croatia" and given a ballet performance The Merry Widow produced by Ballet troupe CROATIA. This February our initiative will go on and there will be a round table, another promotion of a book about her, a ballet performance, etc.
6)We have founded a branch of our Society at the Croatian National Theatre in Osijek. It used to have a ballet ensemble but it was shut down, and now we are trying to help them build a new ballet foundation.
7)The cooperation with the Croatian Association of Dramatic Artists has been very good and for the annual award for the season 2002/2003, the opera and ballet categories have been separated and have become independent.
8)Our Society has helped young dancers and choreographers to apply to different foreign competitions and grants. Stasa Zurovac went to Hannover with Olja Jovanovic and was granted the second prize, Mark Boldin very successfully performed in Graz, and two dancers took the Summer Course at the Hungarian academy for Dance.
9)We are also in contact with the Slovenian Association of Ballet dancers because we have mutual problems regarding pensions for dancers that worked both in Slovenia and Croatia.
10)Financially our Society stands well and we have covered debts of the previous management.
- AWARDS OF THE CROATIAN ASSOCIATION OF DRAMATIC ARTISTS FOR DRAMA, OPERA AND BALLET, SEASON 2002/2003
Nominations for the best ballet performance as a whole:
- TRIPLE BILL, CNT Split // PEER GYNT, CNT Rijeka // ROMEO AND JULIET, CNT Zagreb
Nominations for the best choreographer director or conductor of a ballet performance:
- Alan Bjelinski, conductor of The Mastercat or Puss in Boots (B. Bjelinski -.LJ. Gvozdenovic)
- Slavko Pervan, chroeographer ofr Peer Gynt (E. Grieg)
- Stasa Zurovac, choreographer of Gods are not Angry
Nominations for the best female ballet role:
- Mihaela Devald Roksandic for the role of Giselle in GISELLE, A. Adam CNT Zagreb
- Anna Ponomareva for the role of Solveig in PEER GYNT, E. GRieg, CNT Rijeka
- Bruna Reic Scepanovic for the solo in Under the Golden Sun, CNT Split
Nominations for the best male ballet role:
- Ilir Kerni for the role of Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, S. Prokofiev, CNT Zagreb
- Svebor Secak for the role of Peer Gynt in PEER GYNT, E. Grieg, CNT Rijeka
- Stasa Zurovac for the role of the Devil in The Devil in the Village, F. Lhotka, CNT Zagreb
Nominations for young artists up to 28 years of age:
- Leonard Jakovina for the role of Apollo in APOLLO, G. Balanchine, CNT Zagreb
- Ersilia Nikpalj for the solo in the SERENADE, G. Balanchine, CNT Zagreb
- Edina Plicanic for the role of Juliet in ROMEO AND JULIET; S. Prokofiev, CNT Zagreb
THE AWARDS WERE GRANTED TO:
- ROMEO AND JULIET, S. Prokofiev, CNT Zagreb / performance as a whole
- ALAN BJELINSKI, best conductor
- MIHAELA DEVALD ROKSANDIC, best female ballet role
- SVEBOR SECAK, best male ballet role
- EDINA PLICANIC, best young artist
The Tito Strozzi award for the year 2003 was granted to Irena Pasaric for the role of Giselle in ballet GISELLE, A. Adam, choreographed by D. Bogdanic.
- THE AWARDS ANA ROJE AND OSKAR HARMOS
The Ana Roje award was granted to Suzana Bacic for the best female role in the CNT Zagreb for the season 2002/2003 for her interpretations in ballets Cirkus primitif and The Devil in the Village.
The Oskar Harmos award was granted to Andrej Barbanov for the best male role in the CNT Zagreb for the season 2002/2003 for his interpretations in The Devil in the Village, La Bayadere and Cirkus primitif.
- Since November 2003, Stasa Zurovac is the new director of the Croatian National Ballet in Rijeka. He is preparing a new premiere for Spring 2004, a performance in his choreograhy: Do You Like Brahms ?
- On December 12, 2003 at the CNT in Zagreb there was a premiere of Swan Lake, choreographed and directed by D. Bogdanic and the famous dancer Roberto Bolle danced the role of Prince Siegfried on December 29 and 31, 2003.
- On December 19, 2003 at the CNT in Split there was a premier of The Nutcracker choreographed by B. Lisak after W. Orlikowsky
- Our free-lance artist and choreographer Mark Boldin is preparing a new performance in March at the National Theatre in Varazdin and the Drama Theatre Gavella in Zagreb called A Night with the King
- the Zagreb Ballet gave several guest performances in Croatia (Vinkovci, Sibenik, Vukovar,Osijek, etc.) and visited Ljubljana, Slovenia with La Bayadere and Romeo and Juliet, Podgorica, Montenegro with The Mastercat or Puss in Boots, Belgrade, Serbia and Ohrid, Macedonia with Cirkus primitif, and Gorizia, Italy with Swan Lake.
- In the past year the Split Ballet gave guest performances of the Triple Bill in Maribor, Slovenia and of the Citadela in Spain and Italy.
- ballet troupe CROATIA participated at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, South Africa with its performance The Gingerbread Heart .
- Ilir Kerni was once again a guest artist of the Ohsono Ballet Studio in Japan, Andrej Barbanov continues to work with the ballet school of F.Jelincic in the States where he danced in The Nutcracker, Irena Pasaric participated at a Gala Concert in Padova and Svebor Secak continues his cooperation with the Verona Ballet where he dance the role of Don Quixote at the Teatro Romano, Verona, Italy. |
