Hvar City Theatre Days, Vol. 50 No. 1, 2024.
Original scientific paper
Almira’s Decade: The Rise of the Split Ballet (2002 – 2012)
Maja Đurinović
; Akademija za umjetnost i kulturu u Osijeku
Abstract
The work points to the most successful period of the Split Ballet, a full ten years under the direction and artistic leadership of Almira Osmanović, during which all the visionary announced plans were realized: the classic «white ballet« was returned to the stage of the Split HNK; domestic authors were given a proper scope of action; new ballets of neoclassical and contemporary dance expression were created; Split Ballet achieved an unusually large number of successful guest appearances abroad. Following the stimulated and sustained artistic passion and working energy of the entire ensemble, in that period I wrote reviews of Split ballet premieres for Slobodna Dalmacija (or, as the locals would say: «Newspapers«, because the others are not read), and as I edited and ran the dance page in «Vijenac« magazine during the editorship of Ivica Matičević, reviews of the Split ballet premieres were taken over by my friend and lover of theater and ballet, Zdenka Mišura, under the pseudonym Nina Šegvić. She passed away too soon and it is probably time for that «secret« to be revealed.
Keywords
ballet; Croatian National Theatre Split; Almira Osmanović; Zdenka Mišura
Hrčak ID:
316995
URI
Publication date:
8.5.2024.
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