Ana POGORELIĆ

Ana Pogorelić started studying ballet at the age of five at the School of Classical Ballet in Zagreb. From 2010 to 2013, she attended the Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet Academy. Upon returning to Zagreb, she completed the graduation class of the ballet school and the music class of the School of Applied Arts in Zagreb.

She also graduated from the primary Vatroslav Lisinski Music School in Zagreb as a pianist, with numerous performances.

As a ballerina, she participated in the performances of the ballets Swan Lake and Giselle and performed as a soloist in the role of Ballerina in the play The Madwoman of Chaillot by the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, at the Vinkovci Theatre Joza Ivakić (project Evening of Sound and Movement; solo and duet with A. Nabijulin, Ballet HNK in Zagreb champion) and at the Gala Dance Evenings of the Treps dance scene in Zagreb.

She has appeared in the TV series Civil Servant (Telekom Serbia, 2020) and acted in the plays Absurd Zeneka (ANFI Teatar Kraljevo), Eight Women (National Theatre Belgrade and Belgrade Summer Festival 2022 and 2024), Silk (Teatar &TD Zagreb, PagArtFestival, Zadar Organ Festival, Theatre Joza Ivakić Vinkovci and Slatina), and Illusions (Czech Beseda in Zagreb, PagArtFestival).

She translated and adapted the play Delirium for Two (Czech Beseda, Museum of the City of Zagreb, Mala Scena, KUC Travno in Zagreb, PagArtFestival, Teatar Vuk in Belgrade, Daruvar, Križevci, Pregrada, Novalja, Osijek, Beli Manastir, Kolan, Đakovo). She also adapted The Two-Character Play by T. Williams (Mala Scena, KUC Travno and KunstTeatar, Zagreb, Teatar Vuk in Belgrade, Sombor National Theatre). For both plays, she collaborated with actor Luka Šatara, who also stars in the performances, to create the direction, scenography, choreography and visual elements, all under the banner of ŽabaTeatar.

The play Illusions was adapted this year and performed at Comedy Theatre Club in Zagreb.  

She graduated with a degree in Acting from the Academy of Arts in Belgrade.