Interview: Senka Anastasova – The Visual ‘Feeds’ on Copy and Market
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(Nova Makedonija, 24.06.2009) – Senka Anastasova, a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje, has been getting ready for participation in a world scientific conference at Oxford University on 14-16 July on the topic: “New View Today.” Young, self-confident and eloquent, Anastasova will speak about digital angles of viewing or the influence of modern technologies on human visual culture together with a dozen of other university lecturers, scholars and delegates examining visual art and the creative industry.
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Tenor Blagoj Nacoski: The Japanese Recognise Us as Biblical Country
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(Vecer, 25.03.2008) – After the excellent performances in Japan and upcoming performances in Canada, Blagoj Nacoski has confirmed himself as the “most renowned Macedonian opera singer and best Macedonian tenor of all times,” as Wikipedia puts it. Nacoski is the only Macedonian whose name is has been written on the wall of the Concert Hall in Niigata, Japan. His signature is accompanies with the Macedonian flag and this hall is where Nacoski was recently greeted with ovations and called back on stage for six times.
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Gordana Vnuk, Director of Hamburg Festival “Kampnagel” – We Will Systematically Present Macedonian Culture
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(Dnevnik, 07.03.2007) - Her challenge is to bring artists from the entire world together through projects. Croatian Gordana Vnuk has been the artistic director of cultural center “Kampnagel” in Hamburg for the last six years, with an annual organization of several festivals dealing with experimental theatre. What is the concept of this year’s festival? During one season, ‘Kampnagel’ works on several thematic festivals that research important theatre phenomena.
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Excerpts from an interview with Nancy Morejón, Winner of Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings – By Respecting Others You Keep Your Peace
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(Spic, 30.08.2006) - Nancy Morejón’s poetry touches history, mythology, social and urban life of present-day Cuba. It also branches out to the love, erotic and reflective poetry. Her work mostly draws on the Africans’ life as slaves and the immigration processes following the Revolution in Cuba in 1959. Though, her complete work is permeated with music that can be easily read and leaves traces.
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Opera Art Cannot Cease, Carreras Says
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(MIA, 13.07.2005) - Living opera legend, Spanish tenor Jose Carreras opened Tuesday this year's 45th "Ohrid Summer" festival in the Antique Theatre. At the press conference, Carreras said that it was a huge honor and privilege to visit and perform in Macedonia, and expressed his gratitude for the reception and the exceptional organization. "I would like to point out the high level of professionalism and artistic value of the Macedonian Philharmonic, which members are not only exceptional musicians, but also very pleasant", Carreras stated.
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Interview with Fanica Veljanovska, Anthropologist in Museum of Macedonia – We Reconstructed Common People, not Warriors and Princesses
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(Vreme, 22.12.2004) - Anthropologist Fanica Veljanovska is part of the large team that prepared the first exhibition of reconstructed images in Macedonia, done on the basis of skeleton remains found at Macedonian archeological sites. Veljanovska researched 4,000 skeletons and revived 13 images for the exhibition, which represents a crown of her 20-year work. Whose was the initiative for this unusual exhibition?
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Alkis Raftis, Chairman of UNESCO International Dance Council – Dance Connects Cultures
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(Dnevnik, 10.12.2004) - Greek Dora Stratu Ensemble performed on the stage of the Drama Theatre on 8 December. The extraordinary performance of 45 dancers presented traditional dances from Greece which delighted our audience. Professor Alkis Raftis, the chairman of the International Dance Council operating within UNESCO visited our country together with the Greek ensemble.
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Ljupco Gjorgjevski, Director of “Hasanaginica” – The Balkans Stretched out between Politics and Love
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(Vreme, 14.10.2004) - “Hasanaginica” by Belgrade’s playwright Ljubomir Simovic performed these days on the stage of the National Theatre in Bitola closed the 13th International Interfest Festival. The play had attracted huge interest with the Bitola audience ahead of its Bitola premiere following an Ohrid premiere in the yard of St. Kliment Church at Plaosnik within the Ohrid Summer Festival.
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Interview with Georgi Sareski, Guitarist and Composer – Music We Play is Unique and Created with Great Love
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(Utrnski Vesnik, 05.08.2004) - The newly established jazz structure “International Jazz Connection”, including musicians from Macedonia and several countries worldwide, held a mini-concert tour in Macedonia. The band has already performed in “Fashion” club, in “Art” Cafe in Skopje and in center for culture “Grigor Prlicev” and jazz club “Duck” within festival “Ohrid Summer”, while their last concert will be held at square “Magnolia” in Bitola on Thursday evening at 21,00h, as part of manifestation “Heraklea Evenings”.
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Aleksandar Gerasimovski, Secretary General of Macedonian Music Youth - Music Youth, Generator of Music Future
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(Makedonija Denes, 21.07.2004) - The traditional piano seminar in Ohrid organized by Macedonian Music Youth has just been completed? Between two Septembers, the summer is culmination of our work in the Music Youth. In this period, we usually organize 40-50 concerts in the country and abroad. We use the opportunities for promoting Macedonian musicians and Macedonian music abroad to the maximum, as well as for presenting foreign artists together with our orchestra on the Macedonian stage.
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Nicolaas Biegman, Photographer – I Found El Greco in Macedonia
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(Vreme, 12.07.2004) - Starting from Sunday, NATO Ambassador in Macedonia Nicolaas Biegman is a photographer in Dalmatia. After the completion of his mandate in Macedonia, he withdraws in the piece of the native area of his wife in order to think about the impressions from the years passed at the Balkans, and the photographs taken at this space. Orientalist by education, photographer by vocation, Biegman was a diplomat for a long time. There are no political discussions in the following discussion.
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Lidija Georgieva, Fashion Designer - I See Fashion as Applied Art
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(Utrinski Vesnik, 09.07.2004) - Lidija Georgievska is a name recognizable in the fashion world today as an associate of the world’s most renowned fashion houses. Her artistic beginnings date to her studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje where she gathered theoretical and practical knowledge on fashion and graphic art. She has lived in Paris for ten years now and is increasingly present in Skopje. In Skopje, her native home, she has set an exhibition, “Remix 00-04,” which attracted many inquisitive searchers of world trends in cognizing fashion as art.
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Interview with Painter Sergej Andreevski – Art is Most Representative Truth
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(Makedonija Denes, 01.07.2004) - They say that from the moment the artwork leaves the atelier of its creator, it begins to live its life. I would add that Sergej Andreevski’s works, which fill prestigious museums, galleries and collections worldwide carry the colors of Macedonia when leaving the atelier, being spiritual, pure and full of love in their essence. He is the seeker of hidden world secrets, conveying them through the canvass when revealed.
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Jeacques Gocheron, Poet - Macedonian Poetry, Unusual Link of Modern and Traditional
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(Nova Makedonija, 01.07.2004) - What are your impressions of being a member of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts (MANU)? This is a conclusion of a long story, long history, and it is the friendship I feel for Macedonia, its people, the magnificent landscapes of your country. I have often been in Macedonia in the past years and I have lots of friends here that I respect so much.
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Interview with World’s Greatest Violinist Maksim Vengerov – Macedonians are Special People, They Have Great Hearts
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(Makedonija Denes, 30.06.2004) - To have the world-best violinist of our time as interlocutor is probably the most beautiful thing that can happen to a music journalist. It is true that the virtual conversation took away the pleasure to see the glitter in his eyes, when he talks about the only love in his life, to feel the passion when he tells about the concerts and the loneliness when he realizes that he is only 29 years-old.
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Ljubomir Gruevski, Winner of Poetry Award at Holiday of Lindens - Cry Against Losing Completely Connection with Nature
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(Vreme, 29.06.2004) - Despite the fact that Gevgelija is the hometown of poet Ljubomir Gruevski and that he lives in Bitola, his poem “Soul of the Town” dedicated to Skopje was selected one of the best poems at the traditional competition announced by the Council of Holiday of Lindens, a poetry event that recently saw its 10th edition.
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Nikola Ristanovski, Actor – My Happiness is a Collection of All My Fortunes and Misfortunes
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(Nova Makedonija, 23.06.2004) - Do you feel like a man, who by his will and the need for theatre is more often absent from his “warm home”? You work outside of Skopje, you are now in Bitola, where you prepare “Hasanaginica” for “Ohrid Summer”, and you play Pinterovic? I feel like a man who has a need to preserve his warm home, and therefore he goes out occasionally to gather wood for heating.
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Jovan Balov, Artist – Berlin Foreigners in Skopje, Prima Center in Berlin
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(Dnevnik, 02.06.2004) - “I divide collaborators in two groups: artists that I collaborate with until the end of my life, and artists that I work with once and never again. There is no middle”, says Macedonian artist Jovan Balov, who has worked and lived in Berlin for 15 years. He is not a typical example of an artist-emigrant, because he constantly comes back to Macedonia. He is in Skopje at the moment, organizing exhibition “Not in the Sky, Not in the Earth” in the Museum of Contemporary Art.
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