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Friday, October 30, 2009 at 8 PM
Roy Thomson Hall
Tickets on sale to FriendsFirst
members
Wednesday, May 13 at 10 AM
to the Public on Friday, May 15 at 10 AM
$69.50 - $49.50
Call 416-872-4255 or online at
www.roythomson.com
or visit the Roy Thomson Hall Box Office
It’s the 60th anniversary of LADO, the National
Folk Dance Ensemble of Croatia. To celebrate this milestone,
LADO is taking its show on the road for an international tour
with a stop at Roy Thomson Hall on Friday, October 30 at 8 PM.
"Lado" is an archaic Slavic word, which means "good, kind and
nice" and is often used as a refrain in ancient ritual songs of
northwestern Croatia. Founded in Zagreb in 1949, this
professional national ensemble’s mission was to research,
artistically interpret, and present on stage the rich traditions
of Croation music and dance. LADO represents the rich and
diverse regional musical and choreographic traditions of
Croatia, which is geographically situated at a crossroad of
Europe in which the Mediterranean Balkan, Pannonian and Alpine
influences are found in the dances, music and costumes. The 34
members are all trained in voice and dance, so that LADO can
switch between folk dance and folk choir. Fourteen musicians in
LADO play some 50 different traditional and classical
instruments.
The repertoire consists of more than a hundred different works
of choreography and several hundred vocal, instrumental and
vocal-instrumental numbers. "Pavo, Come and Play for Us",
"Girls, Come and Dance in the Circle", "Dance from Primošten",
"The Bunjevci Young Man’s Dance", "Take That Pretty Girl by the
Hand", and "Wedding Dance from the Podravina Region" make up
some of the more playful and charming dance titles featured in
this production. LADO is often referred to as a "dancing museum"
because of the attractive authentic national costumes (more than
1,200) some of which are "functional antiques", given they are
over 100 years old. The ensemble also presents new, contemporary
musical and dance works based on traditional motifs and
elements.
Internationally, LADO has travelled throughout the globe,
spanning all six continents, and have performed in many
prestigious concert venues, such as the Royal Albert Hall in
London; the City Center in New York City; the Sorbonne Grand
Amphitheatre in Paris; the Palais des Beaux Arts in Bruxelles;
the Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv; the Konzerthaus in Vienne; the
Konserthus in Oslo; the opera houses of Cairo, Budapset, and
Kyiv; the Perth Concert Hall in Sydney; the Kyoto Kaikan Daiichi
Hall; and the Nakano Sun Plaza Hall in Tokyo.
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