Mostar Youth Theatre
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Mostar Youth Theatre is a city-sponsored community theatre
located in Mostar
, Bosnia and Herzegovina
. It was founded on February 24, 1974. The work of MTM includes a practical drama education for children and young people as well production of shows.
MTM offers free training in improvisation
, acting games, physical theatre, movement, voice, pantomime, dance, masks, and various styles of acting. Theatre is divided into following subdivisions: a children's drama group; a youth drama group; the senior MTM group; a music group; a dance group; a video – art group; and the MTM club – gallery.
The Mostar Youth Theatre also organizes the “Days of Youth Theatre” IFAP (International Festival of Authorial Poetics), which also includes the educational part called Alternative Academy. The duration of the Alternative Academy activities is parallel to the duration IFAP (which since 2000 has established a full three-week duration) and its core activities include theater workshops and acting courses. The Festival is held annually around the last weekend of August and the four best original new pieces are awarded a prize called the “Mravac” award.
In addition, the Mostar Youth Theatre has founded an International award called the “Grozdanin Kikot” award. It is usually awarded to the five individuals or organizations who have made significant contributions to the development of drama education. The award organization was later taken over by the Centre for Drama Education
(CDO) which was also initiated by the MTM.
The Mostar Youth Theatre, through the CDO is a member of the International Drama and Theatre Education Association
(IDEA
).
Mostar Youth Theatre is one of the theaters with the most frequent program in Mostar and their headquarters are located in the City Bath building at the Musala Square.
In March 2011, Izida Sakić was named a director of the MTM while the former director and co-founder Sead Dulić is undergoing a investigation concerning financial mismanagement of the institution.
Community theatre
Community theatre refers to theatrical performance made in relation to particular communities—its usage includes theatre made by, with, and for a community...
located in Mostar
Mostar
Mostar is a city and municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the largest and one of the most important cities in the Herzegovina region and the center of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton of the Federation. Mostar is situated on the Neretva river and is the fifth-largest city in the country...
, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...
. It was founded on February 24, 1974. The work of MTM includes a practical drama education for children and young people as well production of shows.
MTM offers free training in improvisation
Improvisation
Improvisation is the practice of acting, singing, talking and reacting, of making and creating, in the moment and in response to the stimulus of one's immediate environment and inner feelings. This can result in the invention of new thought patterns, new practices, new structures or symbols, and/or...
, acting games, physical theatre, movement, voice, pantomime, dance, masks, and various styles of acting. Theatre is divided into following subdivisions: a children's drama group; a youth drama group; the senior MTM group; a music group; a dance group; a video – art group; and the MTM club – gallery.
The Mostar Youth Theatre also organizes the “Days of Youth Theatre” IFAP (International Festival of Authorial Poetics), which also includes the educational part called Alternative Academy. The duration of the Alternative Academy activities is parallel to the duration IFAP (which since 2000 has established a full three-week duration) and its core activities include theater workshops and acting courses. The Festival is held annually around the last weekend of August and the four best original new pieces are awarded a prize called the “Mravac” award.
In addition, the Mostar Youth Theatre has founded an International award called the “Grozdanin Kikot” award. It is usually awarded to the five individuals or organizations who have made significant contributions to the development of drama education. The award organization was later taken over by the Centre for Drama Education
Centre for Drama Education
Centre for Drama Education is an organization in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, that promotes theatre education....
(CDO) which was also initiated by the MTM.
The Mostar Youth Theatre, through the CDO is a member of the International Drama and Theatre Education Association
International Drama and Theatre Education Association
The International Drama and Theatre Education Association - IDEA - represents more than 90 countries around the globe.- IDEA Founding :After the second world war, UNESCO - the United Nations Education, Science and Cultural Organisation, recognised the unique role that arts education can play in the...
(IDEA
Idea
In the most narrow sense, an idea is just whatever is before the mind when one thinks. Very often, ideas are construed as representational images; i.e. images of some object. In other contexts, ideas are taken to be concepts, although abstract concepts do not necessarily appear as images...
).
Mostar Youth Theatre is one of the theaters with the most frequent program in Mostar and their headquarters are located in the City Bath building at the Musala Square.
In March 2011, Izida Sakić was named a director of the MTM while the former director and co-founder Sead Dulić is undergoing a investigation concerning financial mismanagement of the institution.