Milko Šparemblek (born December 1, 1928) is a Slovenian-born Croatian dancer,[1][2] choreographer,[3][4] stage director[5][6] and film director. He has made about 40 ballet films and has about 150 premiers of his work in over 50 theatres around the world. He has received a number of awards including a Vladimir Nazor Lifetime Achievement Award and a Distinguished Artist Award from the International Society for the Performing Arts.

Milko Šparemblek
Born (1928-12-01) December 1, 1928 (age 95)
NationalityCroatian
Occupation(s)Dancer
Choreographer
Stage Director
Film Director
Years active1947‒present
Known forTheatre, Television, Film

Early life

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Šparemblek was born in Prevalje, Slovenia, as an only child. At the age of three, his family moved to Zagreb, Croatia to a neighbourhood called Kustošija. He enrolled in the V. high school of Zagreb and participated in athletics. He attended the University of Zagreb to study Comparative literature, that same year starting to dance at the Zagreb Opera (later known as the Croatian National Theatre) under the direction of choreographers and dancers Ana Roje and Oskar Harmoš.

Career around the work

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In 1948 Šparemblek joined the Croatian Ballet ensemble at the Croatian National Theatre where he studied classical, contemporary and folkloric dances. Four years later in 1952, he was promoted to Ballet Soloist by recommendation of Dame Ninette de Valois and in 1953 he left Zagreb for Paris on a Franco-Yugoslav Scholarship. He studied under Olga Preobrajenska, a graduate of the Imperial Ballet School in Moscow, and later under Serge Peretti in the Paris Opera School of Ballet. After completing his scholarship, he began dancing in small cabarets, music halls and working as an extra in movie production in order to pay for his studies.

Šparemblek became a member of several different ballet companies, including the Janine Charrat company, the Maurice Béjart company, the Ballet de l'Étoile, the Milorad Miskovitch company and the Ludmila Tcherina company. In 1956 he choreographed his first ballet called "L'Échelle".

In New York he studied contemporary dance techniques under Jose Limon and Marhe Graham.

Career as a choreographer

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He was a Ballet Master in Bruxelles under the director M. Bejart in the Ballet de XX. Sc. He was a Director of the Lisbon Gulbekian Ballet and he was a Director of Ballet in the New York Metropolitan Opera Director of Ballet in the Lyon Opera the Lyon. In 1985, he choreographed Pastoral - 6th Symphony of Beethoven - world premiére, for the ballet company Ballet Teatro Guaíra, in the city of Curitiba, state of Paraná, in Brazil, which was also performed in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. He was also a director of Ballet in the Zagreb Croatian National Theatre,[7][8] where in 2012 he choreographed the Miraculous Mandarin,[9] and in 2014 he choreographed a production of the comedy "The good soul of Sichuan" by the Zagreb Municipal Theatre.[10]

Awards

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Year Title Work
1976 Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana Trionfo di Afrodite
1979 Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana Symphony of Psalms
1981 Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana Pjesme Ljubavi i Smrti
Songs of Love and Death
1981 Prix Anik Award, Montreal The Miraculous Mandarin
1983 The Canadian Music Counsel Lifetime achievement
1986 Josip Štolcer Slavenski Award Carmina Krležiana
1986 Slovenian Theater Scholars Award Lifetime achievement
1986 Prešeren Award Triptih Beethoven-Wagner
1987 The City of Zagreb Award Making and realisation of the 1987 Universiade "or the 15th annual Universiade"
1988 Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana Carmina Krležiana
1990 Vladimir Nazor Award Mozart: Amadeus - Monumentum:;ask what this is
1997 Croatian Theatre Award?!?!hrvatsko glumiste Overall artistic activity
1998 Order of Croatian Danica with a figure of Marko Marulić Lifetime achievement
2001 Tito Strozzi Award Johannes Faust Passion
2002 Vladimir Nazor Award Life Achievement
2003 Marul Award Kraljevo (Krleža)
2005 X2 Mare Nostrum Awards Lifetime achievement
2005 Croatian Theatre Award?!?!hrvatsko glumiste Fric and the Singer
2007 Pio and Pina Mlakar Award 60 years of Artistic Achievements
2010 International Society for the Performing Arts – Distinguished Artist Award Lifetime Achievement
2013 Croatian Theatre Award?!?!hrvatsko glumiste The Miraculous Mandarin
2020 Prešeren award Lifetime achievement

Television and film production

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Year Production Title and Artist Role
1958 Baden-Baden TV "Fontessa" with modern jazz quartet Choreography With V. Sulich
1960 TV Belge (RTBF) Monteverdi: "Orfeo"[8] Choreography
1961 TV Belge (RTBF) Kelemen: "Heros et Son Miroir" Dramaturgy, Dance and Choreography
1961 Sociète Monarch "Les Amants De Teruel" Directed By R. Rouleau; Music By Teodorakis, Sauget

(Premiere At Theatre Sarah Bernard 1959)
Dance, Choreography and Leading Male Role

1962 ORTF Paris Šipuš: "Zone Interdite" Dance and Choreography
1963 TV Belge (RTBF) Stravinski: "Histoire de Soldat“ Dance and Choreography
1963 ORTF Paris D'Annunzio, Debussy: "Martyr de St. Sebastien" Choreography
1963 TV Köln-Düsseldorf Poulenc : "Masken" Choreography
1964 TV Zagreb (RTZ) R. Wagner: "Mathilde" Dance and Choreography
1964 TV Köln-Düsseldorf Brecht, Weill: "7 Todtsunden" Choreography
1964 ORTF Paris Rameau: "Pygmalion" Choreography
1964 Saar TV "Swingle Singers" Dance and Choreography
1965 München TV Kaper: "Lili" Choreography
1965 ORTF Paris Claudel, Honegger: "Jeanne au Bucher" Choreography
1966 ORTF Paris Cocteau, Auric: "Phedre" Dance, Choreography and Co-Direction
1966 ORTF Paris Ducas: "La Peri" Dance and Choreography
1966 ORTF Paris Terrasse: "Mons. de La Palice" Choreography
1966 München TV Labiche, Offenbach: "Chapeau de Paille d'Italie" Choreography
1967 ORTF Paris Brecht, Weill: "7 Peches Capitaux" Dance, Choreography and Direction
1968 ORTF Paris Tasso, Monteverdi: "Combatimento" Choreography and Direction
1968 ORTF Paris Molière, Lully: "Bourgeois Gentilhomme" Choreography
1969 ORTF Paris Ray, Kaufman: "La Bague" Dance, Choreography and Co-Direction
1969 ORTF Paris Henry: "Astronomy" Choreography
1981 Montreal TV Bartók: "Mandarin Merveileux" Choreography
1984 TV Zagreb (RTZ) Wagner: "Mathilde" Dance and Choreography
1988 TV Zagreb (RTZ) Chopin: "Chopiniade" Choreography
1988 TV Zagreb (RTZ) Ujević, Šparemblek, Savin: "Gesta Za Tina" Dramaturgy, Choreography and Direction
1989 RTV Ljubljana Gallus: "Enigma Gallus" Dramaturgy, Choreography and Direction
1994 RTV Slovenija Tartini: "Trilo Del Diavolo" Choreography
1995 RTV Slovenija Vivaldi, Wagner: "Objem" Choreography
1998 RTV Slovenija Kumar: "Epitaf za Srečka" Dramaturgy, Choreography and Direction
1999 TV Zagreb (HRT) Mussorgsky: „Pjesme i Plesovi Smrti“ Choreography and Direction
2000 RTV Slovenija Bach: "Toccata i Fuga u D-molu" Choreography and Direction

References

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  1. ^ Zvonimir Bukovina (1991). Kustošijanske minijature. Azur Journal. pp. 78–79.
  2. ^ "Milko Šparemblek oduševljen plesnom senzacijom DanceStar". HRT, 31. 03. 2015
  3. ^ Dubrovnik. Ogranak Matice Hrvatske Dubrovnik. 1993. p. 193.
  4. ^ "?Milko Šparemblek oduševljen plesnom senzacijom DanceStar!". DNEVNIK, Zagreb, 31.03.2015.
  5. ^ "PAREMBLEKOV FAUST Dopunjena baletna verzija europske mitske priče". Jutarnji.hr , OBJAVLJENO 09.02.2015.
  6. ^ Arhivski vjesnik. Vol. 28–31. 1986. p. 174.
  7. ^ "Dinko Bogdanić: Ministar Mrsić je u pravu što balerine sa 42 šalje u penziju". Jutarnji Cultura, Ivana Mikuličin 18.02.2015
  8. ^ a b Alan Rich (12 October 1970). To Hell with Orpheus. pp. 60–. ISSN 0028-7369. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  9. ^ "Balet Hrvatskog narodnog kazališta Split ". Story Press, 17. 10. 2012
  10. ^ "KOMEDIJI Može li dobar čovjek preživjeti u ovom svijetu?". Jutarnji Kultura. 22.04.2014