Standing ovation for the ballet performance "Giving Up" at the closing of the 30th HAPS

AUTHOR:M.J. GDNUS

The first performance of the Montenegrin Ballet Ensemble on stage in Herceg Novi, directed by Mario Pavlo del Monaco, choreographed by Aleksandar Ilić, to the music of the Montenegrin composer Dejan Božović, was performed the day before yesterday in the Park Hall, as the final performance within the 30th Herceg Novi April Theater Festival.

This ballet performance was based on the motifs of "Romance about London" by Miloš Crnjanski, produced by the Music Center of Montenegro.

The audience also accepted this performance within the framework of HAPS with enthusiasm. The performance talks about a subject who does not want to adapt to another cultural context, even to his own detriment, actually raising the question of multiculturalism.

Marina Bukvički tells RTHN about her assessment of this year's Herceg Novi April Theatre Festival and the beginning of her acting career:

"I am completely delighted with what I have seen at HAPS. I belong to the first generation of the Montenegrin Academy of Acting, in the class of Professor Bora Stjepanović. And in 1999, I had the honor of performing with the play "Love", that we actually opened the festival, Andrija Milošević, Stevan Radusinović and I. Here, I experienced that after 26 years, my son Vladimir Sekulić was in the first production of the Montenegrin ballet ensemble and I watched him in the play "Giving Up". In Herceg Novi, you have so many good festivals and performances and I don't know if you are aware of what a treasure you have. "That's really great," says Bukvički.

The theme of this HAPS was the future of theater, but an untold one, says journalist and one of the organizers of the ceremony, Vitka Vujnović.

Literature and professor of philosophy, psychology, logic and ethics Višnja Kosović, says that when such a successful event ends - the Herceg Novi April Theater Festival, for which we are already recognizable as a city and Boka, it is impossible not to ask the question about the future of theater.

"Because theater culture has persisted in continuity, as far as European culture is concerned. We know how strong theater culture was in the Hellenic world. How strong theater culture was in turning points, such as medieval theater, how significant it was and how it expressed the spirit of the times, the theater of the Renaissance, classicism and, not to mention, contemporary theater. Theater culture is a culture of an incredible encounter and summation of certain aspirations in culture. It also has its ups and downs. "A time is like that, what its theater culture is like, among other things. So, it is not measured in science, technology, but can also be measured by the state of theater culture, which in that sense obliges us, when we think about the future of theater," explained Kosović. She congratulated the organizers of HAPS on the diverse program.