During their two week-long visit in Kosovo, Cultural Envoys Colleen Cintron and Marie Morrow worked with various dance groups in Kosovo: traditional folk dance ensemble "Shota" and the National Theater of Kosovo Ballet Troupe in Pristina; Artistic Dance company "Art Design" in Gjakova; and the folk dance group "Mladost" in Strpce. The Cultural Envoys showed new techniques of contemporary dance to the Ballet troupe (whose repertoire is mostly classical ballet), guiding them through the creation of their personal/individual original dance. After 10 days of close cooperation and hard work, the Cultural Envoys and the Ballet Troupe held a "Contemporary Dance Dialogue Show" at the National Theater of Pristina on May 3, their last day in Kosovo. The "dialogue show" broke the clichés of contemporary dance in Kosovo and gave a new perspective of this style in Kosovo. Over 300 people, including the new Minister of Culture of Kosovo, attended the show.
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