{"id":8070,"date":"2020-01-07T11:00:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nyglamour.net\/?p=8070"},"modified":"2026-02-03T04:08:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T04:08:37","slug":"train-your-craft-persistently-be-as-curious-as-possible-and-take-risks-marko-kalc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/?p=8070","title":{"rendered":"“Train your craft persistently, be as curious as possible and take risks!” Marko Kalc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Exclusive interview with Marko Kalc- Theater performer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY\nGlam:<\/strong> Tell me about your experience as a Theater performer?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My\nfirst contact with theatre was in 2007 when I took a fourmonthly acting course in\na comedy amateur theatre. The classes were taking place every Saturday and\nSunday for a couple of hours for four months. I fell in love with acting and\nfrom that moment on I knew that I wanted to work as a performer.  In 2008 I started to take contemporary dance\nclasses and I realized that I really liked to dance so I continued. Very soon I\nstarted to go to auditions and started to play in dance and drama theatre\nshows. My first bigger role was in a choreodrama play \u201eSaloma\u201c where I played\n\u201eLuna\u201c- the moon. There was no text but I had to be very subtle and expressive\nwith my movements which I liked since I was dancing a lot. I performed in many\nindependent contemporary dance shows but I also got invited to perform in\nCroatian National theatre in a comedy children show \u201eSomewhere city\u201c and in a\nballet show \u201eCarmen.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I enjoyed both plays very much. But, the biggest surprise that caught me off-guard was when I took part in a Hula Hoop workshop that was led by Karis Wilde. After the workshop I was hooked on it and I started to practice Hula Hooping every day for four hours. I\ncombined my dance technique with the Hula Hoop technique and developed my own\nstyle. With time I  became quite good and\nstarted to perform in the street, different circus and theatre  festivals and I toured many times with\ndifferent groups of very versatile artists in Germany, Italy and Poland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile back in 2013 I auditioned to be a clown for \u201eRed Noses Clowndoctors\u201c organisation and I got in. Since then I have been working as a healthcare clown in Croatia and from 2019 in Slovenia and I gained a lot of experience by visiting hospitals and different medical institutions. In this work you go with your clown partner from room to room where the children are and we perform(mostly improvise) something from 3 min to 8 min. It is very short, quick and sensitive. In 2018 I became part of the \u201eRed Noses International\u201c organisation project \u201eEmergency Smile\u201c which aim is to send a group of clowns to crisis areas to work with refugees. We perform shows, do musical parades and also give circus workshops. So far I have been on six mission; Belarus, Ukraine and four times in Greece. The special thing with the Red Noses work is that I don’t play just to amuse but to connect with people and to let them react and laugh without being judged or feeling restricted. So, I do many different things as a performer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo by Sa\u0161a Miljevi\u0107 <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

NY\nGlam:<\/strong> Define your job as a performer?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As\na performer I am not focused only on one performing style. I am interested in\nacting, dance, Hula Hoop dance, clowning\u2026I try to balance to work in all those\nfields of performing arts because I think they are all linked to each other and\nas a performer the more skills you posses the easier it is to manage and\nsurvive in the industry. Versatility is needed these days in artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY\nGlam:<\/strong> How long have you been a theater artist and when did\nyou get your start?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\nam working as a theatre artist for twelve years now. Wow, time flies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\nstarted in 2007 in a small amateur comedy theatre \u201eKalvarija\u201c in Rijeka. I\nplayed in two shows there and some comedy cabaret shows. In 2010 I got the part\nof \u201eLuna\u201c-the moon- in a big choreodrama play \u201eSaloma\u201c in the Istrian National\nTheatre Pula. It was a big play with a lot of actors and with big scenery\nmoving through the stage. It was really impressive. There were also two strong\ndogs in the play and one time during the show one of them bit my leg and thore\na part of my pants off. I was bleeding and I quickly ran off the stage. Someone\ncleaned my wound and put a bandage on my leg and I continued to play the show.\nIt was a very intense experience but this show made me end up in the main\nregional newspapers and after that I got some offers for other shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY\nGlam:<\/strong> What is the\nmost exciting opportunity you have had as a freelance artist?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Definitely\nthe most exciting opportunity for me was in the year 2012 when I got invited by\none Polish theatre director Arkadiusz Zietek to be a part of a project\ncalled  \u201eInstant Acts Against Violence\nand Racism.\u201d  We were a group of about\nfifteen artists from different parts of the world and we made a multi skilled\ncircus\/theatre show and toured for two months through Germany and Italy. We played\nshows and gave workshops in schools and youth correctional facilities. I did\ntwo more big tours like that and three shorter ones with the same director. Because\nof him I got to know some really talented and amazing people and because of\nthat I am thankful to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY\nGlam:<\/strong> Where do you get your inspiration from? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\nget my inspiration from other artists. By reading, watching films and shows I\nalways get inspired and some ideas come to my head which I mostly write down.\nSome of them I use, but a lot of them are just resting in my notebooks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY\nGlam:<\/strong> What advice would you give to someone who wants to\nhave a career in Theater performing?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Train\nyour craft persistently, be as curious as possible and take risks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY\nGlam:<\/strong> Are there any new exciting shows or projects that\nyou are working on or have lined up in the near future?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently\nI have no new projects coming. I never know who might call me or what audition might\npresent itself so I am open and ready to jump when the time comes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY Glam: Do you express yourself creatively in any other ways?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\nreally love to play music; ukulele and guitar. I also from time to time work on\nmy songs that I plan to record one day. Since I love movies so much and my\nultimate goal is to star in films I also wrote a full length feature comedy\nscript and one third of another new thriller script. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY Glam: What can we expect from you\nin 2020?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hard\nto tell since I don’t have any concrete new projects planned, but I can say\nwhat I expect from myself this year; hard work and productivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY Glam: Where can everyone keep up\nwith you to learn more? \u2026social media\u2026website<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

WEBSITE:\nwww.markokalc.wixsite.com\/markokalc<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

INSTAGRAM:\nmarko_kalc\/?hl=hr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FACEBOOK\n: marko.kalc<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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