National Folk Dance Ensemble of Croatia LADO

National Folk Dance Ensemble of Croatia LADO (Croatian: Ansambl narodnih plesova i pjesama Hrvatske LADO) is a Croatian professional national ensemble founded in 1949 in Zagreb. LADO represents the rich and diverse regional musical and choreographic traditions of Croatia. It has been called Croatia's most successful "cultural export product".

The ensemble consists of 37 dancers who also sing while they perform, female singing ensemble Ladarice, the male ensemble Vokalisti Lada, which performs Croatian church and folk songs, and the orchestra, which performs as an accompaniment to dance and vocal performances or independently. The ensemble also has a fund with more than 1,200 sets of original folk costumes. LADO has had numerous famous Croatian ethnographers and choreographers, music arrangers, and folklorists work with them (Zvonimir Ljevaković, Ivan Ivančan etc.).