This year's 21st Kotor Summer International Carnival began on Thursday evening with a parade of city music and majorettes through the Old Town, with the ceremonial raising of the carnival flag, while a real spectacle took place on the Summer Stage, where a large audience enjoyed the 28th concert of majorettes and acrobatics of the "Feste" teams. , called "We are all a party".
The organizers of the event, members of the Non-Governmental Association (NVU) "Fešta", expressed great satisfaction with the attendance and reactions of those present, who state that this is an indication of another very successful Kotor Summer International Carnival, Mediabiro reports.
"The cheerleaders from "Festa" prepared a truly spectacular concert, which will be remembered for a long time, and which is full of emotions. The audience included children's parents, as well as numerous guests who came to Kotor for the opening of the carnival. I can say that I am very satisfied. And if a day is known by the morning, I hope that these two next carnival days will be as we imagined them," said the president of NVU "Fešta", Vasilije Bajrović.
That this will be another excellent carnival party is confirmed by the announcements about the arrival of numerous carnival groups from Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Italy. but also representatives of European carnival cities. There will also be carnival friends from Montenegro: Tuzi, Herceg Novi, Tivat, Budva. The hosts, the carnival troupe from Kotor, made a special effort for the 21st edition.
"Kotor's carnival groups have restarted and woken up from the sleep that the pandemic brought us to. They sewed their masks, and there will be numerous carnival groups that will do everything to make Kotor a carnival city once again, so that everyone once again feels what carnival means in Kotor, as the cradles of carnival. Kotor inherits this tradition for over 500 years, so there can be no mistake. My generation and NVU "Fešta" have taken on a great obligation from our elders to pass on our carnival tradition to new generations. We are working hard to make all these children love the carnival and for all these children to love Kotor, so that tomorrow, when we withdraw a little, they will take over and pass it on," said Bajrović.
The performance of over 150 members of the "Fešta" dance club, which has been operating as part of the NVU of the same name for the 18th year, showed that the tradition of carnival and majorette dance is in safe hands.
"It is an honor and a privilege to be born and live in Kotor, because somehow everything related to dance, rhythm, music is somehow easier if it starts from Kotor. There are a lot of children in "Fešta", specifically, there are over 150 girls in the current team who danced tonight. It's really a big challenge to coordinate nine groups, five majorettes and four gymnasts, so that everything works like clockwork, so that there is no waiting between choreographies, so that the girls who dance in both directions reach everyone. The finale of our every concert is our so-called Production, which you could see at the very end. It is a choreography that must last about 15 minutes and during which there must be at least 50 children on stage. We somehow break those records for years and always have over 100 children. Tonight, 137 girls took turns on stage for those 15 minutes, with various majorette and acrobat props. You saw fire, lights, sticks, wings, acrobats and majorette elements through a movie soundtrack," said Mirjana Miljanović, choreographer and trainer of the "Feština" majorettes.
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