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#67 Residency in Croatia

The third week of our residency was the most intense. On Monday, an excursion was organized to the river Riječina in hills in the hinterland of Rijeka. I used that time to look at all the materials I had recorded and created a montage related to the music. We realized that there is a lot of work and that we don't really have much time left for presentations, so we abandoned the concept of morning workshops that we were supposed to conduct and used all that time for rehearsals. Since I was performing in two plays (Natja's and Jacob's) and at the same time had my work designed for all the participants, Thursday and Friday turned into a full-time stay at the HKD. And to make things more complicated, one of my two computers I had just stopped working, and the other had bad sound output channel. Luckily my son has a lot of colleagues in the orchestra at the academy he is studying with, so he managed to find me a girl who jumped in with her laptop and helped us... so it was intense, exciting and fun. After the show we went for a drink and while we were hiding from the lightning and the storm, we realized how wonderful was the weather that was following us all these days spent at the residence. This residence was a great wind in my back, especially after the injuries I unfortunately had at the beginning of the year. I especially liked sharing experiences with the others and watch their performances. So my experience is that the residency was very useful and pleasantly spend time.










By Jasna Čižmek Tarbuk


Treći tjedan našeg boravka bio je najintenzivniji. U ponedjeljak je organiziran izlet na rijeku Riječinu u brdima u zaleđu Rijeke. Iskoristio sam to vrijeme da pregledam sve materijale koje sam snimio i napravio montažu vezanu uz glazbu. Shvatili smo da ima puno posla i da nam baš i ne ostaje puno vremena za prezentacije, pa smo odustali od koncepta jutarnjih radionica koje smo trebali voditi i sve to vrijeme iskoristili za probe. Budući da sam nastupala u dvije predstave (Natjinoj i Jakovljevoj), a ujedno imala svoj rad osmišljen za sve sudionike, četvrtak i petak su se pretvorili u cjelodnevni boravak u HKD-u. I da stvari budu kompliciranije, jedno od moja dva računala koja sam upravo imao prestalo je raditi, a drugo je imalo loš izlazni kanal zvuka. Srećom moj sin ima puno kolega u orkestru na akademiji s kojom studira, pa mi je uspio pronaći djevojku koja je uskočila sa svojim laptopom i pomogla nam... tako da je bilo intenzivno, uzbudljivo i zabavno. Nakon predstave otišli smo na piće i dok smo se skrivali od munja i oluje, shvatili smo kako nas je lijepo vrijeme pratilo sve ove dane provedene u rezidenciji. Ovaj boravak mi je bio veliki vjetar u leđa, pogotovo nakon ozljeda koje sam nažalost imao početkom godine. Posebno mi se svidjelo razmjenjivati iskustva s drugima i gledati njihove nastupe. Dakle, moje iskustvo je da je rezidencija bila vrlo korisna i ugodno provedeno vrijeme.

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