RENATO ZANELLA

Since 2005, Renato Zanella has been  a freelance choreographer. 
He created choreographies for over eighty ballets for the largest art houses: Stuttgart Ballet, the Ballets de Monte-Carlo, Introdans, the Ballet of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Royal Swedish Ballet, the Istanbul State Ballet, the Hungarian National Ballet, the Ballet du Rhin, Vereinigte Bühnen Krefeld/Mönchengladbach, the Teatro San Carlo, Naples, the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, the City Theatre in Baden, the Ballet of the city of Lima, Portugal National Ballet and the Berlin Staats Opera Ballet. 
He created solos for Carla Fracci, Anastasia Volotchkova, Simona Noja, Shoko Nakamura, Vladimir Malakhov, Manuel Legris and his group, Roberto Bolle and Giuseppe Picone.
For the Vienna State Opera he created ballet parts in operas. He also choreographed ballet parts of the productions of operas in: Deutsche Oper Berlin, New Opera from Vienna, Lisbon Opera, Teatro Scala from Milan, Mariinski Theatre from St. Petersburg, at the festival in Bregenz  and in London´s Royal Opera House. 
Renato Zanella started in 2000 the dance project “Off ballet special” in cooperation with the society for disabled persons “Ich bin O. K.”, where he has produced full-length performances ever since. 
In 1995 and 1999 Zanella was a member of the jury for the „Prix de Lausanne“. He also took part in the work of the jury for the „Concours International de Danse de Paris“(in 1998), for the „Concours International de Chorégraphie Classique“ in Paris (in 1999), the „International Ballet Competition of Luxemburg“ and the „Choreographen-Wettbewerb“ in Hannover. In 2000 he appeared at the Monaco Dances Forum, and in 2005 at the Choreography and Dance Competition in Helsinki. 
In 1995 he was presented with the „Danza & Danza“ award, as  the best Italian choreographer abroad. In 2000 he got the prize „Gino Tani“, in 2001 he received the "Jakob Prandtauer" prize from the city of St. Pölten, and in the same year he was honoured with the Austrian Special Distinction for Arts and Sciences.

Nenad Nenic, baritone, graduated from The Faculty of Music Art in Belgrade in the class of Professor Aleksandra Duda Ivanovic. He entered post-diploma studies in the class of Professor Katicaa Nikolic and proceeded with Professor Aneta Ilic. He attended courses with Carlo Ventura, Maestro of Rome opera and with the famous English soprano Pauline Tinsley. In the Opera of The National Theatre in Belgrade, he played the role of Papagena (The Magic Flute), Dandini (Cinderella), Peter (Hansel and Gretel) and Shaunard (Bohemians). In Madlenianum opera he realized the roles of Gullelmo (Cosi fan tutte), the King and the man with a mule (Wise Woman), Luther, Crespel and Schlemil (The Tales of Hoffmann), Marquis (La Traviata) as well as Sharples (Madame Butterfly). In corporation with Croatian artists in opera Angelique, he realized the role of Boniface. He sang the solo parts in Hayden’s World Creation and Dvorzak’s Requiem in Purple Fire by John Gibson at Hauard Gilman scene at the Opera in Brooklyn, within the prestigious BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) festival.

NEBOJSA BRADIC

He graduated from the Faculty of Theatrical Arts in Belgrade, in the class of Professor Borjana Prodanovic, with the performance A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen. Since 1981 till 1996 he served as the director, artistic director and manager of Kruševac Theatre. He came to Belgrade in 1996, to assume the management of the theatre Atelje 212, where he remained for nine months only, but long enough to show his capabilities, thanks to which the Krusevac Theatre joined the circle of the leading Yugoslav theatres. He created the repertoire characteristic of modern European theatres, bringing into this theatre a spirit of contemporary management and started the processes that would be evident not only in this theatre, but in the whole theatrical life of Belgrade as well.

He was the manager of the National Theatre in Belgrade till 1999. Since December 2000 he has become the manager of the Belgrade Drama Theatre. He directed about 60 performances in many Serbian, but also in many Bosnian and Croatian theatres, with a special affinity for contemporary domestic literature and dramatization (The Damned Yard, Death and the Dervish, The Golden Fleece, Roots), and for the theatre in open spaces. He is the winner of several most significant domestic theatrical awards – nine awards for the best directing at the “Joakim Vujic Gathering” in Kragujevac, he was the first winner of the prize Nikola Peca Petrovic for the best theatre manager. He was also awarded the Sterija Award for the best dramatization and directing. He also deals with theatrology and writes essays. He published the book of dramatizations of the novels The Damned Yard and Death and the Dervish. Nebojša Bradic is a member of many art associations and was a member of many juries in various cultural manifestations.

Theatre reviewers and –  even more important – actors, set designers and  composers value him as a high expert in theatrical art, as a director who understands his associates and knows exactly what he can expect from his team and how to work with each individual in specific moments of the work on a performance. One of his main qualities is a capacity to direct his own energy and the energy of his associates in the direction that will bring results. 

NATASA MARKOVIC 

She graduated acting in the class of Professor Branislav Micunovic at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade in 1998, by the performance The Murderer, directed by  Anja Suša at the Belgrade Drama Theatre. She is one of the founders of the theatrical group Torpedo. Among other things, she plays in the performances Shopping and Fucking, directed by Iva Miloševic, at the Yugoslav Drama Theatre, Some Girls, directed by Gorcin Stojanovic, at the Belgrade Drama Theatre, Claus and Erica, directed by Nebojša Bradic, and Runner, directed by Stevan Bodroža at the Small Theatre Dusko Radovic. She had parts in the films Ringeraja and Seven and A Half, and also played in the television series Foxes and Elevator.

MARKO PACE 

He was born in Milan. He completed his studies in violoncello (R. Filippini), piano (L. Taskera) and composition (G. Manzoni and A. Corgi) at the Conservatory „Giuseppe Verdi“ in Milan. Then he studied conducting, first with Franco Ferarra, and then in Vienna with Carl Estereicher. He also perfected his skills with M. Acmon, F. Nagy, G. Bertini and L. Bernstein. In 1983 he won the prize of music reviewers, Turin Soloists. He debuted in Italy as the conductor of the Orchestra Saint Cecilia  in Rome; thereafter he conducted the Orchestra of Varnja, Dublin Symphonic Orchestra, Radio Bucharest Orchestra, Debrecin Symphonic Orchestra (Hungary), Chamber Orchestra in Prague, Opera Orchestra of Olomouc, the Orchestra of the State Opera in Prague, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Arpegione Orchestra (Austria), the Orchestra of Sofia Opera (Bulgaria), the Orchestra of Radio Belgrade and the Orchestra of Novi Sad Opera (Serbia). In the season 1999/2000 he was a full-time conductor of the State Opera in Prague. In the recent seasons he had several tours in South Korea and South America, and performed numerous symphonic concerts all over Europe, especially in Denmark and  Germany. He has recently become a member of the association „Piosenkarze“ and has been engaged in formation of a new orchestra that officially debuted in September 2007. 

LJUBOMIR POPOVIC 

He was born in Belgrade. He graduated from the Faculty of Music Art, in the class of Biserka Cvejic. In the year 2002 he became a member of the Operatic Studio of the National Theatre in Belgrade, and since November 2006 he has been a full-time member of the Opera of the National Theatre. At the stage of the National Theatre he realized a number of roles in the operas by Strauss, Puccini, Mozart, Rossini and Tchaikovsky. Ljubomir Popovic performed at the stage of Madlenianum in the opera The Tales of Hoffmann.

KATARINA  GOJKOVIC

She was born in Chicago on 21st December, 1967. She graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. She received the scholarship from the Yugoslav Drama Theatre in the period 1987- 1990. Since 1997 she has the status of a freelance artist. She accomplished the roles in the following performances: The Dybbuk (directing: Eduard Miller), Proletarian Farce (directing: Egon Savin), Theatrical Illusions (directing: Slobodan Unkovski), Merry Wives of Windsor (directing: Branko Pleša), Florentine Hat (directing: Ljubomir Draškic), Nijinsky (directing: Irfan Mensur), Merchants (“Tergovci”) (directing: Vida Ognjenovic), Misanthrope (directing Dejan Mijac), Belgrade Trilogy (directing: Goran Markovic), Dear Daddy (directing: Boris Liješevic), Chicago (directing: Kokan Mladenovic). She realized the roles in the films: The Battle of Kosovo, Tell Me Why You Left Me and The White Suit.

JORDI ROIG, costume designer

Born in 1960 in Spanish town Lleida. Under the influence of his father, he was active in applied arts from his early childhood. In 1976 he moves to Barcelona, where he studies set design and marionette art at the Institut del Teatre, as well as to become a dancer. After his studies he started his career as a dancer, and as a set and costume designer. He ended his dancing career in 1987, to devote fully to designing. In the same year he was invited to exhibit his works at the IV Biennial.

Between 1987 and 1991 he created some very impressive set designs for the Ballet Lirico Nacional, which was under the artistic direction of Maya Plisetskaya, then for Lola Greco and for Lanònima Imperial. For the Stuttgart Ballet he made set designs for «Empty Place» (1992), «Los Noces» (1994) and «Elle e(s)t moi» (1999); for the Vienna State Opera Ballet «La Chambre» (1994), «Sacre» and Rudolf Nureyev’s «The Swan Lake» (1996), «Thin Air» and «All is Waltz» (1997), «Wolfgang Amadé» and «The Seven Last Word » (1998), as well as for « The Bayadere » (1999); for Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo «Watching Waters» (1994); and for the Ballet of the German Opera from Berlin «...shades of desire...» and for «Last Blues» (1998).

The costume designer Jordi Roig created costumes for many performances, among which for the Stuttgart Ballet, for the Vienna State Opera Ballet, for dances of the New Year’s concerts of the Vienna Philharmonic, as well as for the ballets of Vladimir Malakhov («La Spectre de la Rose», the «Narcisse» and the «Louis XIV»). His works include «Verdi–Ballet: The Masquerade» at the Vienna State Opera, then the «Quintet» of Heinz Spoerli in Zuerich and «The Bayadere» of Berlin Lindenoper.

Ivana Vujic, director and Professor at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, is one of the most controversial and the most successful directors of the contemporary Serbian theatre. Always on the verge of extravagance, in a permanent search of modernness, and always being alert to the world trends, this director has become on Belgrade stages a synonym of theatre modernness, a new and unconventional dramatic expression. Ivana Vujic is the founder of BETON HALA THEATRE and she has staged over 60 performances of many authors: Shakespeare, Webster, Sartre, Jeunet, Becket, Ionesco, Brecht, Euripides, Wilde, Schimmelpfenig, and Coltes. She directed in Slovenia, Germany and Italy. 

IVAN BOSILJCIC 

He was born on 15th January, 1979. He graduated in the class of Professor Vida Ognjenovic from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad in 2001. He had important and main roles in the theatrical performances: The Twelfth Night (Award for the best young actor at the Joakim Vujic Gathering), Hamlet, Mileva Einstein and The Speed of Darkness. Ivan Bosiljcic also played in the following musicals: Brilliantine, Kiss Me Kate, The Gypsy Camp Disappears in the Skies, A Chorus Line and Chicago. He also played in the films: Spleen, Fear of Flying, Monet and On the Beautiful Blue Danube.