The ensemble of songs and dances of the Don Cossacks presented the program “On guard of Russia”

In the year of the 80th anniversary of the Victory, the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Don Cossacks named after Anatoly Kvasov goes on tour with a new program "On Guard of Russia". Recently, the ensemble became one of the leading collectives of the country and received a presidential grant. Veronica Bogma will continue. For almost 90 years, the State Song and Dance Ensemble of the Don Cossacks named after Anatoly Kvasov has been collecting treasures of folk culture. Folklore, in which the customs, traditions, spirit of the Don region. On the eve of Defender of the Fatherland Day, there is a special program. It is based on author's works. “It's not just a program. It seems to me that each member of our ensemble is very sensitive to the Great Patriotic War, and grandfathers, great-grandparents, this is all told by our family and therefore we all know it, says Alina Shinkarenko, an artist of the Kvasov Don Cossacks Song and Dance Ensemble. His uncle, composer Anatoly Zabrodnem, told his mother how he did not return from his first battle near Saur Mogila. “I had never understood before why there was such a situation in the audience that people were beginning to feel the same emotions as well. When I talk about when and how it was created, I cry. You don't know how to stop them. You stop, calm down, sit down and start looking further, says Anatoly Zabrodny, head of the orchestra of the Academic Song and Dance Ensemble of the Don Cossacks named after Kvasov. It turned out one of the most piercing compositions “Letter from the front”. Choreographer Maria Kirichek prepared for her production in archives and libraries, getting acquainted with authentic documents and letters. "With real letters coming from the front here on the Don. They were letters of joy, letters of sorrow. They were letters of pain, despair, separation. A lot of words that were expressed in the end in movement, in vocabulary. Each role of each girl in this issue is the fate of a thousand women, emphasizes the choreographer-director of the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Don Cossacks named after Kvasov Maria Kirichek. The ensemble of Don Cossacks was applauded by Rokossovsky and Chuikov. When the team was sent to the Stalingrad front, it was in the epicenter of the battle. Breaking into groups of 25 people, the artists performed. They left the city after the capture of Paulus. Having passed the front roads, the Cossacks returned to Rostov-on-Don, liberated from the Nazis. The team became widely known in Russia and traveled around the world. Now the Ensemble is included in the number of leading teams of the country and will receive a grant from the President of Russia in the field of culture and art. “To encourage such talented people! First, the grant is purely for the artistic, for the creative staff. In order for them to easily create, said the artistic director of the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Don Cossacks named after Kvasov Alexander Buivol. Cossacks give concerts in hospitals, in temporary accommodation, in border areas. On a tour in Russia, the ensemble goes with new and classic numbers. After Novocherkassk, Taganrog, Vyoshenskaya will perform in St. Petersburg in the large concert hall "October", and in Moscow - in the Hall of Church Cathedrals of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

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