On the stage of the Nikšić Theater on Friday evening, November 22, at 20 p.m., the multimedia theater project "Tango - About Heroes and Love" will be performed by the author Kristina Radovic.
"It is a story about people who, from the beginning of tango at the end of the 19th century until today, were able to express their nostalgia, patriotism, love, jealousy, passion, longing, passion for football through music. Precisely, the project was conceived from these seven segments, and all of them are composed of the most beautiful tracks (prose, poetic, vocal-instrumental, instrumental, dance...) that correspond to the concept", said the author of the project, an art historian, at the press conference. Kristina Radovic.
As she explained, the subtitle "About heroes and love" was slightly changed, an allusion to the title of the famous work of the Argentine writer and scientist Ernest Sabat, whose narration forms the framework of this project and leads us through the chronological development of tango, autobiography, through the story of the heroes of the 20th century.
"Those heroes are all the European emigration, including an extremely large number of Montenegrins, who settled throughout Latin America, especially in Argentina, at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. Our story begins in Buenos Aires, the birthplace of Ernesto Sabato. In each of those seven segments of immense love for someone or something, renunciation and loss prevail. It was precisely as an expression of that sadness that tango was created, and its creator, Enrique Santos Diespolo, said that tango is a sad thought that is danced. The idea concept is to put it on the stage of the Nikšić theater with the help of excellent performers and to convey to the audience at least one part of thinking about European and Montenegrin emigration in Latin America, in this case Argentina, through the form of a multimedia project, through the phenomenon of tango," explained Radović.
Nine years ago, the first "Tango" was performed, which this time was supplemented with both a dramatic text and new participants.
According to Radović, the project "Tango - About heroes and love" is a story from Nikšić and a world story, because the participants are educated and work both in Montenegro and abroad. This time too, actors, singers, dancers, harmonica and guitar players will take turns on the stage of the Nikšić Theater. Participants in the project are Mihailo Perošević, Filip Vučić, Bojana Marković, Tijana Blečić Perović, Milena Radonjić, Andrija Vasiljević, Sandra Đukanović, Slobodan Bogdanović, Veljko Vučurović, Vesna Šarac, Miloš, Olivera, Viktor i Martina Krivokapic from the dance studio "Migado", Svetlana i Slađana Blagojević, Nađa Vujičić, Ana Nikolić, Milica Šljukić i Jelena Šćepanović from the folklore ensemble "Zahumlje" and the Art Studio "Luna".
In the project, Mihailo Perošević plays Sabat from, as he pointed out, a boy from the Argentine pampas to a scientist with a brilliant career and one of the most talented Latin American writers.
"The story follows Ernest to the moral authority of his time, I play such a complex personality of an uncompromising fighter, anti-fascist, president of the commission for missing persons during the military junta in Argentina, a scientist, a great writer," Perošević said.
Miloš Krivokapić, director of the dance club "Migada", who participates in the project with family members, dancers, said that "Tango - About Heroes and Love" explores the complex relationships between courage, love and human destiny.
"Tango as a dance requires passion, subtlety, and it symbolizes the emotional depth and dynamics of interpersonal relationships. "Tango - About Heroes and Love" also explores human existence through the prism of suffering, and love is shown as a key element of human existence that can be just as challenging as fighting on the battlefield. That love is not only romantic - it is a struggle that requires courage and commitment. True courage does not come only from physical strength, greater from the ability to love and be vulnerable", Krivokapić said.
As he pointed out, heroes who fight for love represent the ideal of human endurance and strength, and tango becomes a metaphor for that complex game of emotions.
Slobodan Bogdanović, a guitar teacher, said that the project "Tango" from 2015 was one of the most beautiful projects in which he participated, and he is sure that it will be the same in the amended and supplemented sequel.
"It is a special pleasure that this is a story about tango - tango as music, dance, but also tango as a kind of emotion. The true definition of tango is an emotion and a relationship between two. Through our performance on stage, Kristina sets up that first side that participates in that emotion. The other side is the audience and through this project, Kristina, through all the participants, dances tango with the audience and we all merge into a unique emotion called tango", said Bogdanović, who will perform both solo and with opera singers in the project.
Bojana Marković, soprano, did not hide her pleasure that the team was reunited because, as she said, it is a special feeling to share the stage with such people and professionals, but also to perform in front of the Nikšić audience.
"It is something that I experience in a special way. I can easily sing around the world, here I have a special feeling when it comes to singing", said Marković, who lives and works in Barcelona.
The project "Tango - About Heroes and Love" was supported by the Ministry of Culture and Media at this year's competition in the field of cultural and artistic creativity.
JU "Zahumlje" is the project holder in co-organization with the Nikšić Theater.
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