The Artistic Director of the Astana Opera Ballet Company, People’s Artist of Russia Altynai Asylmuratova continues to enrich the repertoire of the capital’s opera house with gems of world choreography. At the initiative of Altynai Asylmuratova, unique novelties in the world of ballet will be presented to the audience. High art connoisseurs will certainly enjoy the choreography of the renowned ballet masters, which is unlike anything in the world.

The Evening of Contemporary Choreography consists of two parts. A philosophical reflection on time and its specific moments awaits the audience in Raimondo Rebeck’s one-act ballet How Long is Now?

The choreographer himself says that Now can have a different span at different moments of life. A lover feels that a kiss can last for an eternity, and the memories of suffering can last forever or disappear without a trace...

In Raimondo Rebeck’s ballet, three pairs of ballet dancers symbolize different stages of a person’s life. The talented choreographer makes an original attempt to investigate time, its flow and perception through choreographic means.

Another equally vivid one-act ballet by Ksenia Zvereva Sounds of Time is based on Adam Kapanov’s libretto Celestial Nomadic Travelling to the music of Aktoty Raimkulova. Set design by Riccardo Massironi.

At the heart of the ballet is the story of lovers, whose fathers were ordinary people, while mothers were celestial nomads. The main characters Ansar and Nuriya unknowingly possess ancient magic and find themselves in a whirlwind of amazing events. They face good and evil, love and hatred, self-sacrifice and egotism on their way. However, this fascinating story, filled with magic and spirit of times, will be transferred to our modern world. The protagonists’ mysterious powers and magic amulets will take new forms, and the heroes’ character traits and actions will become recognizable for modern viewers. The performance will reflect the contemporary world, its current problems, relationships between people, and different segments of society and their values. Thus, the densely eventful plot of the ballet, where myth and reality are intertwined, will eventually lead to the ideas that have always been, and will continue to remain outside the concepts of time and space.

Source : https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/tsm/press/news/details/27123?lang=kk