Opening night

Opening night

Festival opens  on   July 25, at 9pm  with  contemporary ballet  performance :  

CROATIAN NATIONAL BALLET SPLIT
"5 do 12"

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Festival opens  on   July 25, at 9pm  with  contemporary ballet  performance :  

CROATIAN NATIONAL BALLET SPLIT
"5 do 12"

Choreography: Igor Kirov
Music:  Kiril Dzajkovski
Costumes Designer: Aleksandar Noshpal
Set Designer: Matija Kovac
(Premiere HNK Split 30.10.2015.)
The team of authors:
Choreographer Igor Kirov most prominent Macedonian dancer and choreographer of a  remarkable international career of his ballets set to scenes from Macedonia to Korea and from Italy and Germany to Cuba. As his first play with the Split Ballet  “5-12” Kirov has set to music the award winning author of film and theater music Kyril Djaikovski, who was himself one of the greatest ambassadors of contemporary Macedonian art and culture. The team of authors of the critically acclaimed and extremely popular dance performances make more and Alexander Noshpal, one of the most prominent Macedonian costume designer, set designer and versatile Slovenian Matia Kovac who in addition to numerous, notable and award-winning theater sets  has been very active as an interior designer,  architectural and multimedia artist. 

Dancers: 
Simon Caputo, Nicole Marcich, Katerina Kuznetsova, Gabriela Mede, Matea Milas, Sanja Bikich, Artyom Usov, Dimache Remus, Romulus Dimache, Alexander Korjakovski, Ašatbek Yusupuhanov and Urosh Shkaper.

Story:
Life's a gambling cube that is turning and rolling, and once it falls – it is up to us to  decide whether to accept the outcome or to reject it.  To live in a time where cubes are  thrown, dropping  at  5 to 12, and sometimes  5 past 12, is a sign, an omen.  It  is a warning that  we should always be prepared for anything. That is exactly  the story of  this  latest  Kirov’s   contemporary dance  performance, taking us to the world of cubes and colours. The choreographer Igor Kirov created an imaginative  vision of life as a gambling game visualizing it through  12 blocks, 12 scenes , and  12 dancers.  High technical performance of  the dancers,  bursting with energy,  passionate music, a unique  combination of tecno etno elements,  as the fundamental choreographic impulse , and  fabulous  costumes influenced  with Macedonian etno motives,  and all these components united with the  light design  that takes your breath away. 
We follow the story   aware that every dream of perfection is always slipping away like a house of cards. There is always  a new game  starting anew, and there is little time left. In the game of life it’s always '5 to 12' ..



Baletna predstava 5 do 12 premijerno je izvedena na prošlogodišnjem Splitskom ljetu u koreografiji Igora Kirova, najistaknutijeg makedonskog plesača i koreografa koji zavidnu međunarodnu karijeru gradi na scenama od Makedonije do Koreje te od Italije i Njemačke do Kube. „Život je kocka koja se okreće i kotrlja, a nakon što padne - sami odlučujemo hoćemo li prihvatiti ishod ili ne. Živjeti u vremenu gdje se kocke bacaju ili padaju točno u 5 do 12, a ponekad i u 5 poslije 12, znači da trebamo uvijek biti spremni na sve. Upravo tako je i ovoga puta u ovom mom svijetu kocaka i boja„ – tim je riječima Kirov opisao osnovnu ideju 5 do 12, svoje prve predstave sa splitskim Baletom koju je postavio na glazbu Kirila Džajkovskog. Taj višestruko nagrađivani autor filmske i kazališne glazbe kao i sam Kirov jedan je od najznačajnijih ambasadora suvremene makedonske kulture. Autorski tim ove od kritike hvaljene i izuzetno popularne plesne predstave čine još i Aleksandar Noshpal, jedan od najistaknutijih makedonskih kostimografa, te svestrani slovenski scenograf Matija Kovač koji je osim brojnih, zapaženih i nagrađivanih kazališnih scenografija vrlo aktivan kao dizajner interijera, te likovnih, arhitektonskih i multimedijalnih izložbi. U predstavi ravnopravne uloge igra 12 plesača splitskog Baleta.