INFINITAS
Poem
choreographer: Igor Kirov
music: Stanojlo Rajičić (recording of the performance by the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, soloist Tijana Milošević, conducted by Angel Šurev)
assistant choreographer: Mojca Majcen
costume designer: Olja Mrđenović
light designer: Nuno Salsinha
set designer: Miraš Vuksanović
duration: 17’
premiere: National Theater in Belgrade, 2023.
“Poem” is an opportunity to experience the very special connection that exists between music and dance, to “see” the body as music. This is a way that we can all become the melody, and we can all become the dancer. Rajičić’s score is music full of beautiful rhythms and pulse that simply make you want to dance. The dancers on stage visualize the energy of the music, and show what it feels like to be part of this music, to experience the passion, the love or the peace.
Igor Kirov
Macedonian dancer and choreographer Igor Kirov, studied at the Rotterdam Dance Academy. He performed in many European dance companies and collaborated with important choreographers. Kirov began creating smaller choreographies when he was still a dancer, and in 2006 he was awarded the prize for the most talented young choreographer at the international competition in Nagoya. Since then, Kirov has choreographed for numerous ballet and dance companies around the world.
O, My Bird, do not fold your wings
choreographer: Miloš Isailović
music: Enriko Josif, Irena Popović
pianist: Vladimir Gligorić
dramaturgy: Bojan Đorđev
costume designer: Ida Ignjatović
light designer: Nuno Salsinha
set designer: Miraš Vuksanović
duration: 32’
premiere: National Theater in Belgrade, 2023.
“O, My Bird, Do Not Fold Your Wings” is a choreographic reinterpretation of the ballet of the same name created by Vera Kostić and Enriko Josif based on the verses of Rabindranath Tagore. My authorial process is primarily a dialogue with the choreographer conducted from the contemporary moment. Desire is taken from the original as the main driver, the fuel for liberation and maturation, for destroying all cages and walls. Desire is both a creative and a destructive force that escapes control and takes the heroine, the titular bird, on a flight from dizzying heights to the painful depths of the soul.
Miloš Isailović
Graduated from Ballet School in Belgrade, Miloš Isailović was a scholarship holder of the Zurich Dance Academy. As a member of Belgrade’s Bitef Dance Company he choreographed performances “Dunjaluk” (2016), “Macbeth” (2017), and “Animal Farm” (2022). In 2022 in Serbia he has received the Smiljana Mandukić Award for the best dancer and in 2017 he was the recipient of the Dimitrije Parlić Award for the best contemporary choreographer. Isailović works as a soloist dancer and as an assistant of Edward Clug, choreographer with whom he has staged performances in Bolshoi Ballet, Vienna State Opera, National Opera in Riga, Novosibirsk Ballet and Opera, Zurich Opera, Dortmund Ballet.
Symphonic Triptych
choreographer: Maša Kolar
music: Petar Konjović (recording of the performance by the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra)
dramaturge and assistant of the choreographer: Maja Marjančić
costume designer: Katarina Grčić Nikolić
light designer: Nuno Salsinha
set designer: Miraš Vuksanović
conceptual design of scenography: Maja Marjančić i Maša Kolar
conceptual design of Pirot’s ornaments: Milica Živadinović
duration: 23’
premiere: National Theater in Belgrade, 2023.
On the eve of celebrating the centenary of the Ballet of the National Theatre in Belgrade, choreographer Maša Kolar has created a ballet to the music of Petar Konjović, “Symphonic Triptych”. It is a representative piece of Serbian music of a national character that became famous as folkloric ballet music.
Graduated from the Ana Maletić School of Contemporary Dance, Maša Kolar attended the Vlaamse Dansacademie in Bruges and completed undergraduate studies in contemporary dance, teaching major, at the Academy of Dramatic Arts of the University of Zagreb, and graduate studies in Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy in Rijeka. For the Ballet of the National Theatre in Belgrade, she staged the piece “Interval” with Zoran Marković, and for the Bitef Dance Company the performance “Othello” and independently “Don Juan”. In different companies in Zagreb, Split, Rijeka and Hamburg, she has produced and choreographed numerous works. She is the recipient of many important Croatian and international awards, and since 2017 she serves as an artistic director of the Croatian National Theatre in Rijeka.
