The premiere of the ambitious musical and stage project "Bokeška priča" will be performed tomorrow at 19 pm in the large hall of the Center for Culture (CZK) in Tivat. With the premiere of this musical, Tivat once again confirms its vanguard position in the cultural and educational dimension of Montenegro, because it is a project whose main carriers and performers are the students and professors of the local Music School. This educational institution has just celebrated its big jubilee - the 60th anniversary of its existence and work, and is in cooperation with the NGO "Ars Preasentia Boka Kotorske", CZK Tivat and the former director and producer of that public institution, a well-known Tivat cultural worker, professor Neven Staničić, implemented this ambitious project.
"The musical and stage work "Bokeška priča" was created as a result of the joint work of the NGO "Ars Praesentia", JU Music School Tivat and CZK Tivat. This work is fully realized by the students and professors of the Tivat School of Music, with the artistic and professional support of collaborators. "The Story of Boka" is a unique cultural project that depicts the tradition and heritage of Boka Kotorska through music, acting and dance, with the involvement of young talents and their mentors," said the director of the Tivat Music School yesterday at a media conference. Zorana Jovanović.
She pointed out that there will be over 100 participants on stage, mostly school students aged 9 to 17, and their teachers, the choir and orchestra of the Music School under the baton of the professor Martin Vuksanović.
"The emphasis is on music, but there are also actors on stage, members of the Cultural and Artistic Society "Boka", the choir and orchestra of the Music School. We designed this project in our NGO, in which most of the members are current or former professors of the Tivat Music School, with the ambition to further connect students and professors through it so that they can together present a beautiful story about Boka", said the president of the NGO "Ars Praesentia Boka Kotorska" ", Pina Bubanja who is also a teacher at the Music School in Tivat.
With the idea for this musical and stage venture, which, as she said, is a very complicated and complex work with over 100 participants, that NGO applied and received financial support from the Municipality of Tivat at the regular annual competition of the local administration for support of the work of the NGO sector. Bubanja pointed out that the whole project is based on music, and the need to show children opportunities for their artistic and creative expression while affirming something that is local cultural heritage. She especially thanked Professor Staničić, who devised the final concept and managed its staging, which, she said, was not at all simple because here we are not talking about professional actors, but students - children who are the main performers. She also thanked the actress Dubravka Drakić who chose parts of the drama test "Novel of Love" Stevan Koprivica which Staničić modernized and digitized for this occasion and put it in a context receptive to the modern generations of the 21st century. In the implementation of the project, they also received support from the curators of the Tivat Museum and Gallery Zoran Kruta who provided the props. Bubanja thanked the Tivat Culture Center and the company "Una" for technical assistance, and the professor Andrei Coso who selected the music for the performance and to all other professors of the Tivat Music School JU who directly or indirectly participated in the preparation.
"I am extremely glad that the Bokele texts that are part of our cultural heritage and identity, which we in the theater production of the Tivat Culture Center insisted on in earlier years, have in the meantime met with excellent reception by the audience and, in particular, by the acceptance of the local educational institutions that they use more and more through their extracurricular activities. Not without concern, because a musical is perhaps the most complicated stage work where literally all actors have to like and be sympathetic to the audience, I got into this project first of all because of Pina and Dubravka. I'm glad about that, because at the end of this creative process, it turned out that Tivat has its own capacities and values in the domain of music, that it can dare to enter these waters as well", pointed out Staničić, adding that the basic thread of the story "Novels of Love" which is set in the 17th century, he on this occasion adapted and transposed it into a digitized story of the 21st century.
"One of the main props in the play is the mobile phone, but its message has remained unchanged - that love survives and remains forever, regardless of technology," emphasized Staničić, adding that in "Bokeška priča" there are also elements of the relationship between the North and the South, i.e. Boke and continental, which give a specific dimension to the local environment and lifestyle.
"We mustn't forget that Tivat is essentially a city of music and that today's entire NGO and artistic sector of this city actually arose from music: the orchestra and the Music and Educational Society "Tivat" which were founded here more than a hundred years ago. I think that this new ambitious project, which we dared to enter through the synergy of the NGO sector and an official educational institution that has excellent capacities and great references and results in its work, shows that we are getting more mature and closer to the story of starting to think about forming in Tivat professional orchestra - the city philharmonic and that we have all the predispositions to get it", Staničić concluded.
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