CONTACT:
SVEBOR SEČAK
Ludinska 24, 10 000 ZAGREB
HRVATSKA
Tel/Fax. 00385 1 230 26 29
GSM: 00385 98 237 159
e-mail: svebor.secak@usa.net

 


 

SVEBOR SEČAK

 PRINCIPAL DANCER OF THE CROATIAN NATIONAL THEATRE IN ZAGREB AND ARTISTIC LEADER OF BALLET TROUPE CROATIA

 

  • 25th anniversary of artistic portfolio (November 2004) - danced most of the leading classical ballet roles from Prince Siegfried and Rothbart in Swan Lake, Prince and Drosselmayer in The Nutcracker, Prince in Sleeping Beauty, Count Albrecht in Giselle, Franz and Coppelius in Coppelia; Don Quixote, Espado in Don Quixote; Paris, Tebaldo in Romeo and Juliet; Crassus in Spartacus, Quasimodo in Esmeralda, Peer Gynt in Peer Gynt, Prince Danilo in The Merry Widow, to Hamlet in Hamlet, and numerous roles of the contemporary and national repertoire.
  • Performed at all Croatian and the most prestigious world stages - Bolshoi, Moscow, Kirov St. Petersburg, Arena di Verona, Verona, Covent Garden, London, Berlin State Opera, Taras Schevchenko, Kiev, HET National Theatre, Hague and at festivals like the Salzburg Festival, Austria, Arena di Verona, Italy, Agrigento Festival, Italy, Bolzano Festival, Italy, Aspendos Festival, Turkey, National Arts Festival, South Africa, Jerash Festival, Jordan, and toured many countries like the States, the Netherlands, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, etc.
  • Partnered many world famous ballerinas; Gillian Murphy, ABT; Agnes Letestu, Opera de Paris; Elena Pankova, Kirov; Amaya Ugarteche, Verona; Irina Dorovyenko ABT; and all Croatian primaballerinas.
  • 10th anniversary of his ballet troupe Croatia (June 2004), which realised many world tours including EXPO 2005 Japan; ROH Covent Garden, Sadler´s Wells and the Millennium Dome, London, UK;  NAF Grahamstown, South Africa; Jerash, Jordan.
  • Since 2002 he is the President of The Croatian Society of Professional Ballet Artists.
  • Received the highest state orders for the promotion of culture; State order Marko Marulić  for the achievements in culture; was granted the award of the Croatian Society of Dramatic Artists for the best male ballet role in the season 2002/2003 for Peer Gynt in E. Grieg´s ballet Peer Gynt; was granted the Olga Orlova award for the best male interpretation in the past three seasons (2002-2005) in the Croatian National Theatre in Rijeka, Croatia also for the role of Peer Gynt; was granted the Oskar Harmos award for the best male ballet role in the season 2004/2005 of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, for the role of Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet. On November 24, 2005 he was granted the the award of the Croatian Society of Dramatic Artists for the best male ballet role in the seasons 2003/2004 and 2004/2005 for Hamlet in P.I. Tchaikovsky´s ballet Hamlet.
  • He choreographed his version of the first Croatian national ballet The Gingerbread Heart to the music of Kresimir Baranovic and of Hamlet to the music of P.I. Tchaikovsky and created several shorter choreographies for the stage and TV. The opening night of his new ballet CALIGULA took place on December 28, 2006 at the Croatian National Theatre in Varazdin.
  • Born in Zagreb on November 18, 1962

EDUCATION

In March 2008, he enrolled for a Master of Honours Degree at the University of New England.

He acquired his BA (Hons) First Class Degree at the Royal Academy of Dance in London, UK in June 2007.
Vaganova Academy, St. Petersburg, Russia 
School for Classical Ballet, Zagreb, Croatia