Prague Quadrennial of stage design and stage space 2019 – Nikola Zavišić

01 Name of author/applicant:

Nikola Zavišić

02 Category:

Light design

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03 Project title:

TransformatioN

04 Description (not exceeding 50 words):

TransformatioN is an experimental puppet performance for youth and adult audience. Its genre is difficult to define since it functions on the borderline between theatre of objects, theatre of movement, figural theatre, Grand Guignol and audio-visual experimental spectacle. A director-designer duo establishes play as a method of their joint research work with a twenty-member performing ensemble in order to map new territories of the theatre language specific in its aesthetic, semantic and narrative potential.

05 Impressum (production, place, year, other authors of the team):

Krasnoyarsk Puppet Theatre (Красноярский театр кукол), Siberia, Russia, 2018; puppet, costume and stage design: Natalia Burnos (Наталия Бурнос); script: Nikola Zavišić and Natalia Burnos; music choice, light design and directing: Nikola Zavišić; performers: all members of the theatre ensemble

06 Photography:

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03 Project title:

The Flight of Jonathan

04 Description (not exceeding 50 words):

The performance is the author’s response to the famous novel Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach. The light functions as a dramatic element and element of the performance atmosphere. On the costume and stage design level, light points to their materiality. It functions as an indispensable part of the atmosphere, irrespective of whether it reflects off surfaces, or plays with them alchemically by means of three overhead projectors, lasers or lamps.

05 Impressum (production, place, year, other authors of the team):

Branko Mihaljević Children’s Theatre in Osijek (Osijek, Croatia, 2015); stage design: Irena Kraljić; costume design: Maja Mirković, choreography: Dunja Jocić, music: Willem Miličević (composer), Edi Ćelić, Lidija Kraljić, Đorđe Dukić, Areta Ćurković, Snježana Ivković, Mirel Huskić (performers)

06 Photography:

Marin Franov

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07 Biography:

Nikola Zavišić is a director, dramaturg and light designer. His experience of assisting A. J. Weissbard, a light designer, on the performances directed by Robert Wilson (opera Destiny by Leoš Janáček, The National Theatre, Prague), has permanently directed him towards researching the use of light in the theatre. He directed in Serbia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Russia, the Czech Republic, Germany and the Netherlands. He also received theatrical awards for his work at the following festivals: Golden Lion (Umag, Croatia), Meetings of Professional Theatres of Vojvodina, Meetings of Professional Puppet Theatres of Serbia, TIBA (Theatre International Belgrade Adventure) Festival, Festival of Theatre for Children (Kotor, Montenegro), ASSITEJ (International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People) Festival in Croatia (Čakovec, Croatia), “Stobi” Antique Drama Festival (Macedonia), Theatre Fest “Petar Kočić” (Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Days of Comedy (Jagodina).