Haris Pašović (born 16 July 1961) is a Bosnian theatre director.
Over the course of his career, he has also worked as a playwright,
producer, choreographer, performer, and designer. He is best known for
his productions of Wedekind's “Spring Awakening†. He is the
artistic leader of the East West Theatre Company in Sarajevo and
tenured Professor of Directing at the Academy of Performing Arts in
Sarajevo.Pašović was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina in
1961. His education includes the Academy of Performing Arts in Novi
Sad, former Yugoslavia; the Fulbright Scholarship in the USA
(University of Hawaii, Honolulu, New York University and the
University of Wisconsin, Madison); the UNESCO High Levels for
Directors, Festival d’Avignon, France, and other professional
trainings.He directed in some of the most significant theatres in the
former Yugoslavia and participated in a number of festivals worldwide.
His productions of Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening and Calling the
Birds based on Aristophanes’ play The Birds (both at the Yugoslav
Drama Theatre, Belgrade 1987/90) have been considered as the landmarks
in the theatre of the former Yugoslavia. Likewise, Samuel Beckett's
Waiting for Godot (Belgrade Drama Theatre) and Alfred Jarry’s Ubu
Roi (National Theatre Subotica) have been considered as the classic
productions in the ex-Yugoslav theatre, the former being the last
Yugoslav premiere performed on the eve of the war in the country. As
the artistic leader of theatre Promena (“Change†), Pašović
directed with a great success Wiess's Marat/Sade; Wedensky's The
Christmas Three at the Ivanovs; Kis's Simon the Magus on a lake
surrounded by sand desert; Buñuel's Hamlet placed in the fortress
sitting on a rock rising from the Adriatic Sea (Dubrovnik Summer
Festival) and many other plays.During the siege of Sarajevo
(1992â€"96) PaÅ¡ović spent most of the time in Sarajevo managing the
MES International Theatre Festival. He directed plays and produced
several shows, among others Waiting for Godot, directed by Susan
Sontag. In 1993, while Sarajevo was still under the siege, he also
organized the first Sarajevo Film Festival “Beyond the End of the
World†and was one of the most prominent advocates of naming a
square in Sarajevo after Susan Sontag. Pašović even managed to tour
in 1994 to several European countries (under UNESCO auspices) with the
Sarajevo Festival Ensemble invited by Peter Brook and Théâtre des
Bouffes du Nord. During the tour, the Ensemble performed two
productions he had directed in the besieged city: Silk Drums based on
the Noh plays, and In the Country of Last Things, based on Paul
Auster's novel.
Over the course of his career, he has also worked as a playwright,
producer, choreographer, performer, and designer. He is best known for
his productions of Wedekind's “Spring Awakening†. He is the
artistic leader of the East West Theatre Company in Sarajevo and
tenured Professor of Directing at the Academy of Performing Arts in
Sarajevo.Pašović was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina in
1961. His education includes the Academy of Performing Arts in Novi
Sad, former Yugoslavia; the Fulbright Scholarship in the USA
(University of Hawaii, Honolulu, New York University and the
University of Wisconsin, Madison); the UNESCO High Levels for
Directors, Festival d’Avignon, France, and other professional
trainings.He directed in some of the most significant theatres in the
former Yugoslavia and participated in a number of festivals worldwide.
His productions of Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening and Calling the
Birds based on Aristophanes’ play The Birds (both at the Yugoslav
Drama Theatre, Belgrade 1987/90) have been considered as the landmarks
in the theatre of the former Yugoslavia. Likewise, Samuel Beckett's
Waiting for Godot (Belgrade Drama Theatre) and Alfred Jarry’s Ubu
Roi (National Theatre Subotica) have been considered as the classic
productions in the ex-Yugoslav theatre, the former being the last
Yugoslav premiere performed on the eve of the war in the country. As
the artistic leader of theatre Promena (“Change†), Pašović
directed with a great success Wiess's Marat/Sade; Wedensky's The
Christmas Three at the Ivanovs; Kis's Simon the Magus on a lake
surrounded by sand desert; Buñuel's Hamlet placed in the fortress
sitting on a rock rising from the Adriatic Sea (Dubrovnik Summer
Festival) and many other plays.During the siege of Sarajevo
(1992â€"96) PaÅ¡ović spent most of the time in Sarajevo managing the
MES International Theatre Festival. He directed plays and produced
several shows, among others Waiting for Godot, directed by Susan
Sontag. In 1993, while Sarajevo was still under the siege, he also
organized the first Sarajevo Film Festival “Beyond the End of the
World†and was one of the most prominent advocates of naming a
square in Sarajevo after Susan Sontag. Pašović even managed to tour
in 1994 to several European countries (under UNESCO auspices) with the
Sarajevo Festival Ensemble invited by Peter Brook and Théâtre des
Bouffes du Nord. During the tour, the Ensemble performed two
productions he had directed in the besieged city: Silk Drums based on
the Noh plays, and In the Country of Last Things, based on Paul
Auster's novel.
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