Ruku pod ruku, Kolo i Lado, ponovno zajedno
Hand in Hand, Kolo and Lado, Together Again

Summary/Abstract: After a 27-year break in cooperation, two professional national folklore ensembles, from Croatia Lado and from Serbia Kolo, decided to realize two joint evening programs under the symbolic name – Hand in Hand – to initiate further cooperation. Joint concerts were held on April 8, 2016 at the National Theater in Belgrade and a week later, on April 15, at the Croatian National Theater in Zagreb. More than 100 artists from both ensembles performed traditional dances, songs and music from Serbia and Croatia in front of fully occupied auditoriums of the national theater. The last joint performance of professional folklore ensembles in former Yugoslavia was held on September 7, 1989, in the Great Hall of the Kolarac Endowment in Belgrade. The concerts were held under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, the Zagreb Tourist Board and the City of Zagreb, and on the joint initiative of colleagues and friends, Kolo's Director Vladimir Dekić and me. In addition to the described renewed cooperation between Kolo and Lado, in this paper I provide a brief analysis of media coverage in Croatia on this project and an overview of the continuation of cooperation, as well as personal reflection on future prospects.

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