Croatian national folk dance ensemble LADO will perform at this year’s Dubrovnik Summer Festival on Tuesday, July 24, and present all the beauty and diversity of Croatian folklore with their new programme, Ideju Regruti.

LADO was founded in 1949 in Zagreb with the goal of researching, collecting, and presenting the most beautiful examples of Croatia’s well of music and dance tradition. A group of 37 dancers and singers, along with 14 musicians who play around 80 traditional and classical instruments, cooperate with the country’s most famous ethnomusicologists, choreographers, and composers, creating a rich repertoire with more than a hundred acts which are based on honouring authentic folk art of Croatia. The ensemble has performed all over the globe.

The ensemble also boasts a unique collection of authentic folk costumes of great value (over 1,200 pieces), some over a hundred years old, which makes their every performance a one-of-a-kind show of Croatia’s authentic traditional garb.

LADO’s new programme, Ideju Regruti, brings 12 completely new dance choreographies, inspired by wedding traditions of central Croatia, dances of the Adriatic islands of Cres and Murter, and, for the first time, dances and songs of the so-called Moravian Croats, whose ancestors fled Ottoman invasions in Croatia in the 16th century to settle in Moravia, in today’s Czech Republic.

The ensemble will perform its new set on Tuesday at 21.30, on the terrace of the Revelin fortress. Tickets are available at the Festival register (1 Od Sigurate) every day from 9.00 to 21.00.

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