Neshka Robeva exclusively for Bulgarian Diplomatic Review

Why did you choose the subject of the refugees?
This movement of different nations exists forever but in the last centuries when Argentina was established as a state there were many refugees from Bulgaria and the Balkans there. I was attracted most of all by the tango as a means for communication, as a search of human intimacy, of friendship.

Tango is the dance of the immigrants. It bears the imprint of every bigger ethnos that came to Argentina. I also use folklore music, the folklore song, folklore dances from the Balkans. I think that this reflects in the best way and that it can best make this reference: you are far from your motherland, with the memories of the motherland and with the nostalgia. I think Argentinean tango is a philosophy. It can express anything.

What is that you want to transmit to the audience? What will they see on the stage?
Tonight the audience will really live together with our refugees, feel the pain from the separation, rejoice at their return to the memories, suffer upon realizing that a nation that lives together could be divided by politicians, by interests, by the eternal interests that shatter people, destroy them and breed hatred…
From a pain so intense they will reach unrestrained joy. And I think that the fundamental thing that will remain with the people is thinking. I believe that they will not only watch crossing legs or mad jumps and dynamic music that raise adrenaline. I really hope that while leaving the hall they will think about it and this will be the greatest compliment of all.

And so be it! Because just like in the dance the body language is important no matter who you are or where you come from, this spirit formed by different but still close cultures has to be set free so that we could learn to forgive and to live in one rhythm, to follow one step.