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Balett
Ljiljana Gvozdenović
ENCOUNTERS BEFORE MIDNIGHT
Dance Company, Zagreb
Carrarina poljana, July 27 2007
Music: Louis Armstrong, Sergej Prokofjev, Georges Bizet, Claude
Debussy,
Louis Gottschalk, Anton Rubinstein, Isaak Osipovič Dunajevski, Giuseppe
Verdi
Choreographer: Ljiljana Gvozdenović
Set Design:: Dinka Jeričević
Costume Design: Dženisa Pecotić
Dancers:
Ivanka Boljkovac, Pavla Mikolavčić, Valentina Kržić, Dunja Novković,
George Stanciu,
Andrej Izmestjev, Arcadie Belenco, Daniil Yastrebov
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It is a scene saturation of incompatible:
unpredictable human passions and mechanical ticking of a clock
The show is a product of Ljiljana Gvozdanović’s imagination and
cooperation with Croatian National Theater and Zagreb Puppet Theater,
where the critics praise the dramaturgic line achieved by exchanging
different music and dance styles, very well cloaked into a mild irony.
It all happens five minutes before midnight, when everything is possible,
especially if the clock hands go crazy and the midnight never comes. It
is the moment when puppets become people, princes meet their “Cinderellas”,
opera prima donnas dance, and ballet soloists sing... It is a scene
saturation of incompatible: unpredictable human passions and mechanical
ticking of a clock evoke a collision of wishes and destiny, waking and
sleeping, but this time with a happy end. With a colorful musical
background, mixing modern with classical into a unique dance-theater
expression, this little ballet comedy is performed by Pavla Mikolavčić,
Valentina Križić, Dunja Novković, George Stanciu, Andrej Izmestjev,
Arcadie Balenco, Daniil Yastrebov and opera diva Ivana Boljkovac who
fascinates and makes audience laugh with her funny, witty and charming
performance which always gets an applause at the open scene.
Ljiljana Gvozdenović after graduating from Classical Ballet
School in Zagreb and dancing for Croatian National Theater in Zagreb
attended the Academic Theater Taras Ševčenko in Kiev and prepared for
the roles in Swan Lake and Giselle. When she returned to Croatia she was
the first soloist of Zagreb Ballet and worked with famous ballet
educators and choreographers like Natalija Dudinskaja, Nina Belikova,
Sergejev, Waczlaw Orlikowski, Milko Šparemblek... Since 199 3 she has
cooperated as ballet maestro and assistant with many choreographers like
Dragutin Boldin, Dinko Bogdanić, Fran Jelinčić, Ivonica Satie, Veseljko
Sulić... Since 199 5 she has cooperated very often with Croatian
National Theater Ballet in Split setting Giselle, Schelkunchik, A
Midsummer Night’s Dream, House by the Sea...In the meantime she
continues her cooperation with Zagreb Ballet as a ballet educator,
ballet maestro and choreographer of numerous theater and television
programs, cooperates as a ballet educator in Classical Ballet School.
She was the choreographer of Puss in Boots performed by Zagreb Ballet
and directed by Bruno Bjelinski in 2003. In 2006 she directed and
choreographed a two-act ballet fantasy Maestro, music by Boris
Papandopulo and libretto by Nedjeljko Fabrio. Encounters before midnight,
choreographed by Ljiljana Gvozdanović, represents an interesting
cooperation of Croatian National Theater Zagreb and Zagreb Puppet
Theater.
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