Within a large regional tour called KOLODROM, the National Ensemble of Folk Dances and Songs of Serbia, KOLO, will be visiting Romania. In Bucharest, on November 8, 2023, at 8 p.m., it will perform a concert on the stage of the National Theatre of the Operetta and Musical “Ion Dacian”.

In the eighty-minute program, the top artists of the KOLO National Ensemble will perform anthological choreographies with which we will present the rich and diverse Serbian traditional art.

The concert is supported by the Ministry of Culture of Serbia, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia – Directorate for Cooperation with Diaspora and Serbs in the region and the Embassy of the Republic of Serbia in Romania.

ENSEMBLE OF FOLK DANCES AND SONGS OF SERBIA “KOLO”

Ensemble KOLO was founded on May 15, 1948. For seventy-five years, KOLO has preserved, nurtured and presented traditional art at a high artistic level, through dance, song, music and customs.

In the creation of the artistic repertoire, the most eminent choreographers, composers, as well as numerous professional collaborators / ethnomusicologists, ethnologists, ballet artists… / have participated in establishing of a recognizable artistic style, expressed predominantly in the variety of stage and musical forms.

Ensemble KOLO is a unique ambassador of culture that has performed on all continents, in the most prestigious concert halls, such as the Metropolitan and Carnegie Hall in New York, the Palais Chaillot in Paris, the Royal Festival Hall in London, the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, the Opera in Cologne, the Fenice Theater in Venice, Opera in Sydney, National Art Center in Beijing…

The ensemble has gained an outstanding reputation in the country and abroad, receiving  prestigious domestic and international awards and recognition for its high contribution to the culture.

The director of the KOLO Ensemble is PhD Zdravko Ranisavljević.