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History

the dance action, the dangerous topic of new creative forces, the tour geography
Nabokov’s plot gets a pure shade and loses expands each year, and the repertoire
a mundane material contour. is renewed permanently. The Dance
The dance theatre has performed on Theatre issues 1-2 big performances a
the most prestigious country’s stages for year, not counting concerts. The theatre
thirty-five years. In the State Concert performing cast has improved noticeably,
Hall “Russia”, State Concert Hall n.a. refilled with graduates from the
P.I. Chaikovsky, State Opera and Ballet Republican Choreographic College n.a.
Theatre in Novosibirsk, Concert Hall Akseniya and Nataliya Poselskikh, the
n.a. A.G. Glasunov of Saint-Petersburg Arctic State Institute of Culture and Art,
Conservatory, Moscow’s musical theatre the College of Culture and Art of the RS
“The New Opera”, State Concert Hall (Y). The theatre establishes contacts with
“The Pearl” in the city of Sochi. It is not an the composers and painters of Moscow,
exaggeration that the theatre has become Saint-Petersburg, and other cities.
a full-right representative of the popular On Yakutia’s main stage, on 1st
diplomacy abroad and presented the November 2017, the successful first
Northern peoples’ art on the most famous night of the long-awaited singing and
world stages for these thirty-five years. choreographic Ethno-musical “The
The dance theatre represented the dance White Sun Children” of the National
legacy of the Yakut peoples with dignity Dance Theatre in the Sakha (Yakutia)
in many countries. A lot of feedback from Republic n.a. S. A. Zverev – Kyyl Uola
the international folk festivals organisers, with Rashid Kolimullin’s music. He is
critics, and experts in the folk dance the RF Honoured Performing Artist and
prove it. The team took part successfully the RF Composers’ Union chairman. The
in thirty world folk festivals. The theatre production is of the well-known director
demonstrated its creative work with and ballet master in Russia and abroad,
dignity in Germany, Canada, the USA, the RF Honoured Art Worker Georgiy
Switzerland, France, Spain, Hungary, Kovtun. The performance artist is O.
Poland, Mongolia, and many other Molchanov (Saint-Peresburg), the choir
countries. The International Festival master is S. Smirnova (Odessa), and
“The World Theatres” in France, of dance the music arranger is Y. Sirbu (Odessa).
teams in the USA and Canada, the 37th The original choreographic performance
International Festival in the Pyrenees is dedicated to the ancestral homeland
across 40 cities in France and Spain, the Sakha and its people’s sources as well as
Global Festival and Competition among Turkic roots. The auditory witnessed
dance teams in c. Cheonan in South Korea, the triumph of the international creative
the 45th International Folk Festival in team.
France and Belgium should be especially The understanding and mastering of the
noted. folk culture is, in essence, the restoration
Today the creative director is one of the traditional spiritual values, the deep
of the first soloists for Yakutia’s State system of the popular knowledge. The
Dance Ensemble, Honoured Employee in dancing art of the peoples settled in the
Culture of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic endless spaces of the severe North did not
Svetlana Bessonova. She is working on lose its potential that is capable of uniting
updating a repertoire policy, enriching peoples. The National Dance Theatre
the repertoire with the works of a high continues its activity on the creation of
artistic level, activating the team tour, the meaningful repertoire.
setting up the national dance school,
perfecting performing artists’ technique, Literature:
and developing the national instrumental 1. Argis G.U. The Essays on the Yakut Folklore. M.: Nauka,
1974. P.146.
music. 2. Zhornitskaya M.Y. The Yakut Folk Dances. М., 1966. P. 53.
3. Gogolev A. I., Reshetnikova A.P. The Shamanism
According to all parameters of the Phenomenon in the Religion History // The Shamanism as the
creativity, the Dance Theatre has to Religion; The Genesis, Reconstruction, Tradition: The Theses
of the International Scientific Conference. Yakutsk, 1992. P.3.
reach a new quality level. Now around 4. Lukina A.G. The Sakha Traditional Dances: Ideas, Images, Lexis.
Novosibirsk: Nauka, 2005. P. 255.
one hundred people are working in the 5. Lukina A.G. The Yakut Traditional Dance Culture. Novosibirsk:
© dancesakha.ru theatre. It is constantly updated by Nauka, 1998. P. 55 – 58.

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