Ballet Ensemble of Croatian National Theatre Ivan pl. Zajc, Rijeka

Edward Clug
TANGO

Opening night HNK Ivana pl. Zajca, December 9 2006
At 53^rd Split Summer Festival ljetu: CNT Split, July 15 2007

Choreographer and Director Edward Clug
Assistant to Choreographer Valentina Turcu
Set Designer Marko Japelj
Costume Designer Leo Kulaš
Light Designer Boris Blidar

Dancers:
Paula Rus, Anka Popa, Laura Popa, Sabina Voinea, Cristina Dicu Lukanec, Irina Köteles, Antonija Družeta, Kristina Kaplan, Anna Ponomareva, Vitali Klok, Andrei Köteles, Valeri Rasskazov, Dmitri Andrejčuk, (Ashatbek Yusupzahanov), Leonid Antontsev

Tango was born on the streets and I wish to bring it back to the streets of our childhood, our dreams, our hearts and wishes. A story about us who carry the tango inside.. Edward Clug

The purity of idea, excellent choice of music and dedication to the piece and dancers Edward Clung is a choreographer characterized by a strong connection among purity of idea, excellent choice of music, extreme perfectionism and dedication to the very piece and dancers. His performances are characterized by a certain amount of lyrics and at the same time extreme strength, which demand preciseness and high technical performance from the dancers. I like his choreography and truly believe that he is one of the greatest choreography names of our times and a true star-to-be.
Staša Zurovac

From the reviews

A PERFORMANCE THAT CROSSES THE LIMITS

Tango by Rijeka Theater functions strongly as poetic-dancing-dramatic unity... Tango is a piece that crosses the limits. It is a combination of beautiful musical suites with emphasized interspace of silence, silence as possible epilogue of one scene or suspense expectation of the other, or simply a restrained moment of petrified emotionally stiff body.
Maja Đurinović, "Vijenac"

EDWARD CLUG (1973) a dancer and choreographer born in Transylvania (Romania), attended the State Ballet School in Clui from 198 3 to 199 1 when he was invited as a soloist dancer to Slovenian National Theater in Maribor, where he became the manager of the theater in 2003. During his dancing career he has accomplished leading creations in Maribor, Zagreb and Ljubljana in Don Quijote, Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet, Carmen...He cooperated with theater director Tomaž Pandur in Carmen, La divina commedia (The Divine Comedy), and in 1996 he made choreography for Babylon in Slovenian National Theater in Maribor. Since then he has been working on his own choreographies, and in 1998 he directed his first full-length show Tango in Slovenian National Theater in Maribor, and later One – Bacchelorette with Slovenian National Theater Ballet in Ljubljana. Both were internationally rewarded. As a choreographer and dancer he cooperates with Goran Bregović on his Silence of the Balkans project, directed by Tomaž Pandur, and with Tomaž Pandur on his Hazardous Dictionary in 2002. At the Ninth International Ballet Competition and Contest of Choreographers at the Bolshoi Ballet Theater in 2001 he was awarded a bronze medal for choreography, and on Fourth International Ballet Competition and Contest of Choreographers in Nagoi (Japan) in 2001 he was rewarded for the category of modern dance.

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