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History

The Yakut Dance “The Arabesque” of Sergey Zverev – Kyyl Uola.

librettist is PhD Ludmila Zhukova and the with the composer V. Shadrin’s music first grand performances about Old Believers
conductor is N. Petrov. It is the first large- and Y. Fedorov’s choreography. The who were pioneers having settled the
scale performance under the Northern folklore, North theme is one of the main search Northern lands of Russian Ustye. In this very
based on the Northern peoples’ mythology. lines by the creative team. The northern place, the unique culture of the Russian old
The performance represented unique specimen topic was embodied in the choreographic residents was kept and endured. In Russian
of the Yukagir and Even dance folklore that is performance “On the Edge of Oykumen”. It Ustye, the old local dialect, the unrepeated
being lost. It brought up philosophical subjects was staged, according to the scenario of the manner of voice accompaniment, the means
of good and evil, love and hatred, disharmony well-known researcher in the culture and of unique throaty sounds, specific ancient
between a person and nature. life of the Russian Northern old residents melodies, the improvisational character
The Evenki folklore motives are reflected A. Chikachev, with A. Tomskiy’s music and of the archaic Russian dances, the special
in the mono-performance “Savaki” (2003) G. Baishev’s choreography. It is one of the plasticity of the dance movements, gestures,

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