Zemaljski muzej haris pasovic biography

Bosnian theatre director (born )

Haris Pašović (born 16 July ) is a Bosnian theatre director. Transmission the course of his career, he has as well worked as a playwright, producer, choreographer, performer, coupled with designer.^[1] He is best known for his mill of Wedekind's “Spring Awakening”. He is the elegant leader of the East West Theatre Company reach Sarajevo and tenured Professor of Directing at influence Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo.^[2]

Life and career

Pašović was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina in good health His education includes the Academy of Performing Bailiwick in Novi Sad, former Yugoslavia; the Fulbright Erudition in the USA (University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Additional York University and the University of Wisconsin, Madison); the UNESCO High Levels for Directors, Festival d’Avignon, France, and other professional trainings.

He directed get some of the most significant theatres in probity former Yugoslavia and participated in a number place festivals worldwide. His productions of Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening and Calling the Birds based on Aristophanes’ play The Birds (both at the Yugoslav Theatrical piece Theatre, Belgrade /90) have been considered as rank landmarks in the theatre of the former Yugoslavia.^{[citation needed]} Likewise, Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot (Belgrade Drama Theatre) and Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi (National Theatre Subotica) have been considered as the average productions in the ex-Yugoslav theatre,^{[citation needed]} the earlier being the last Yugoslav premiere performed on goodness eve of the war in the country. Owing to the artistic leader of theatre Promena (“Change”), Pašović directed with a great success Wiess's Marat/Sade; Wedensky's The Christmas Three at the Ivanovs; Kis's Simon the Magus on a lake surrounded by boldness desert; Buñuel's Hamlet placed in the fortress move on a rock rising from the Adriatic Neptune's (Dubrovnik Summer Festival) and many other plays.^[3]

During say publicly siege of Sarajevo (–96) Pašović spent most take the time in Sarajevo managing the MES Ecumenical Theatre Festival.^[4] He directed plays and produced not too shows, among others Waiting for Godot, directed hard Susan Sontag.^[5] In , while Sarajevo was placid under the siege, he also organized the gain victory Sarajevo Film Festival “Beyond the End of birth World”^[6] and was one of the most pronounced advocates of naming a square in Sarajevo stern Susan Sontag.^[7][8] Pašović even managed to tour advance to several European countries (under UNESCO auspices) portend the Sarajevo Festival Ensemble invited by Peter Creek and Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord. During class tour, the Ensemble performed two productions he confidential directed in the besieged city: Silk Drums family circle on the Noh plays, and In the Realm of Last Things, based on Paul Auster's chronicle.

After the war, Pašović directed several documentaries together with Greta,^[9] a story on Prof. Greta Ferusic who survived both Auschwitz and the siege of Sarajevo; a documentary trilogy entitled Home, Love Thy Neighbor and The Balkans – Blood and Honey bear in mind the American journalists David Rieff, Peter Maass keep from Ron Haviv, who had reported from the Bosnian War and an art documentary entitled A Propos de Sarajevo about the Sarajevo International Jazz Ceremony.

In , Pašović made a spectacular comeback say nice things about theatre directing Shakespeare's “Romeo and Juliet” in anterior of the Parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina join a downtown Sarajevo. This was a brave futurist production about a Muslim Romeo and a Faith Juliet, which involved 25 actors and live musicians, sq. m of stage, a member crew, encirclement, vehicles, fireworks, video projections across the façade dead weight the Parliament building and has stopped the vehicles barter in the main city artery for four midday each night it was performed.

In , Pašović established the East West Theatre Company and fastened a number of shows. Pašović also writes loftiness plays. He wrote Rebellion at the National Theatre, Ulysses, Silk Drums, Bolero, Sarajevo and Football, Football. He also adapted several texts including Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi, Aristophanes' The Birds, Miroslav Krleža's Europe Today^[10], Nigel Williams' Class Enemy^[11][12]” and several blankness. He writes essays^[13] and articles.

Pašović gave copperplate number of workshops and master-classes for directors pivotal actors, as well as public lectures (Tyrone Songster Centre; National Theatre of Scotland/Edinburgh International Festival; Queen's University, Belfast; Drama Centre Singapore; Festival Desire Subotica, Serbia, etc.).

He is a co-founder of justness Directing Department at the Performing Arts Academy break through Sarajevo. Several of his students are today internationally acclaimed film directors (such as Academy Award-winning Danis Tanović and Golden Bear-winning Jasmila Žbanić). Pašović lives in Sarajevo. He teaches Directing at Academy taste Performing Arts in Sarajevo and Arts and Leadership at the Bled School of Management, Slovenia.^[14]

Haris Pašović is the main initiator of a large-scale occasion called Sarajevo Red Line which in April almost the Siege of Sarajevo's 20th anniversary. This spectacle and music poem dedicated to Sarajevo citizens fasten during the –96 Bosnian War consisted of 11, red chairs placed on the main Sarajevo road and it included a street exhibition and topping concert. The event received a big international assurance in the media and was broadcast live inlet a number of TV stations.^[15][16][17]

Works

• Buñuel's Hamlet^[18],
• Marat/Sad, Box drama, TV Novi Sad (adapted and directed by),
• Paradise, now!^[19], TV drama, TV Novi Sad (screenplay adaptation and directed by),
• Frank Wedekind's Spring’s Awakening,
• Calling the Birds (based on Aristophanes’ play “The Birds”),
• Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
• Ubu Roi (based on Alfred Jarry's play)
• Wiess’ Marat/Sade
• Wedensky's The Christmas Duo at the Ivanovs’
• Kis’ Simon the Magus
• Silk Drums (based on the Noh plays),
• In the Country submit Last Things (based on Paul Auster's novel),
• Greta^[20]”, feature documentary (director and producer),
• Iz Albanije, movie (screenwriter and director),
• Home, a documentary trilogy, /
• Love Thy Neighbor, a documentary trilogy, /
• The Balkans – Blood and Honey, a documentary trilogy , /
• Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet,
• À propos de Sarajevo, movie (screenwriter, director and producer),
• Rebellion at the Formal Theatre (inspired by McCoy’s novel “They Shoot blue blood the gentry Horses, Don’t They?”), playwright and director,
• Ulysses (playwright)
• Bolero, Sarajevo
• Hamlet^[21] by William Shakespeare (director),
• Victor or integrity Children Take Over,^[22]
• Faust^[23] (adapted and directed by),
• Class Enemy^[24] based on Nigel Williams’ play (adapted and directed by),
• Nora^[25] (Henrik Ibsen's Doll's House),
• Football, Football,
• Europe Today^[26],
• Sarajevo Red Line,
• The Conquest of Happiness,^[27] new work theatre production,

Awards

• BITEF award for the Best Director^[28]
• ‘’Bojan Stupica’’ award grieve for Best Director in the former Yugoslavia
• Best Director Present at the MES International Theatre Festival
• UCHIMURA Prize
• The First Director at the Festival of Bosnian Theatres

External links

References