Creative Shadow Theatre

Pictures at an Exhibition & Carnival of the Animals

 

"Pictures at an Exhibition" & "Carnival of the Animals" - Creative Shadow Theatre performance
Author: prof. Nikolina Georgieva

Professor Georgieva is author of transforming musical dramaturgy into stage dramaturgy and transforming abstractions in music into visually creative transformation.
Director of creative transformation of characters from shadow, movement and stage act - V. Velev. Assistant and director associate is Aleksandra Nalbantova.

"Carnival of the Animals" - based on music by Camille Saint-Saens (a Grand prix "Silver Rose" at Montreux in 1968, award Performance of the Year, Tokyo, Japan 1980 and award PIF-2007).

"Pictures at an Exhibition" based on music by Musorgski (awarded a "Golden Dolphin" in 1996).

Prof. Georgieva's "Carnival of the Animals" and "Pictures at an Exhibition" is world famous and known from France to Russia and Japan. With "Carnival of the Animals" she founded her specific style in hand shadow theatre. Her name with these two performances is in international collections and manuals for world shadow theatre.

 

Author: prof. Nikolina Georgieva

Directors: prof. Nikolina Georgieva and Velimir Velev
Director of characters, movement and stage act: Velimir Velev
Music "Pictures at an Exhibition": M. Musorgski
Music "Carnival of the Animals": Camille Saint-Saens
Performers: Igor Beketić, Dario Grba, Ana Majherić, Dijana Martinović, Ivana Pavlović, Nina Sakić, Karolina Šuša, Martina Tomić, Ivana Vratarić
Artistic director: Rajko Pavlić
Light design: Miljenko Bengez i Mario Vnučec
Assistant director: Aleksandra Nalbantova

The performance was supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia and the City Office for Education, Culture and Sport of the City of Zagreb.

The first two performances of the Creative Shadow Theatre were at Zagreb Dance Centre on 30 November and 1 December 2009.