Live Broadcast Presentation of the BAIKAL Theater

05/04/2021 18:02

Every year, on the first day of the lunar month in late winter and early spring, Buryatia celebrates the White month holiday. The holiday is called SAGAALGAN – this word means “white”. It lasts one month...

For the Buryat people white is a sacred color. This is no coincidence. According to an ancient legend, the Beautiful Snow-White Swan gave birth to eleven sons from the Buryat hero and became the ancestor of eleven Buryat clans. Thus, according to legend, this people originated from the White Swan-Mother, who became a symbol, and brings purity to life in all affairs, in relations between people, wishes to each other and actions.

The Buryats put a very deep meaning into the name White Month. This is light and purity in relationships, love and respect for people. Sagaalgan is a holiday of peace and kindness, reconciliation and friendship, respect for elders. A symbol of the renewal of man and nature, openness of thoughts, hopes and good expectations. The holiday is full of various mythological and ritual traditions. In the good old days, during Sagaalgan, people stopped wars ... People firmly believed that Good will triumph over Evil.

... “And it lasts exactly thirty days, and people put on “white clothes”, and people make peace with each other, and stop all strife and battles, and give each other Love, Respect, Harmony, Friendship, Unity ...”.

This year, the White Month holiday came to our land on February 12 and lasted until March 12. On the very last day of the White Month, the European Association of Buryat Culture GRALTAN and the ALTAN-ART Company in France, within the ALL COLORS OF EURASIA International Festival, held their first live broadcast dedicated to the White Month holiday, but above all - to a great cultural event that awaits the French public in November 2021: The Buryat Theater of Song and Dance BAIKAL will come to France with its new program SHOW-OF-DANCE.

Live link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5DFEFP-SHI

 

The Buryat Theater of Song and Dance BAIKAL is the best dance group in Russia. In the All-Russian competition-2017 “Everybody Dance”, dance groups from all over Russia showed their professional skills in a variety of modern styles: hip-hop, contamporen, vogue, ethnic, classical ballet. In a very tense struggle, which lasted three months, the Buryat dance theater BAIKAL surpassed all competitors and became the Champion of the competition. Moscow choreographers, a strict jury, unanimously declared that the artists of the BAIKAL Theater proved that they are undoubtedly the most professional and synthetic: Baikal dancers are subject to any styles, from national dance and classical ballet to all styles of modern dance. We say with great pride: the BAIKAL Theater is the best dance group! The basis of the BAIKAL dance theater's repertoire is the richest folklore of the Buryat people. The modern repertoire of the theater presents major performances. The BAIKAL collective is subject to ethno-opera and ethno-ballet. BAIKAL shows a new stage choreography, beauty and uniqueness of Buryat culture.

In 2020, the Buryat Theater of Song and Dance BAIKAL was supposed to come to France to participate in the ALL COLORS OF EURASIA international festival. In November 2020, large concerts were planned at the ancient amphitheater of the city of Orange and the Vaucluse department, but, unfortunately, the pandemic and lockdown prevented these beautiful and grandiose plans from coming true.

However, in spite of any prohibitions, life goes on. Festival ALL COLOURS OF EURASIA in France is not canceled.

The White Month fills our hearts with goodness and love, faith and hope! We hope that in 2021 the French public will be able to be acquainted with the art of the wonderful BAIKAL Song and Dance Theater. They will come to France in November 2021.

As part of the very first live broadcast, the European Association GRALTAN and the ALTAN-Art company held a concert-presentation of the Buryat Theater of Song and Dance BAIKAL.

This concert was held within the ALL COLORS OF EURASIA International Festival, which represents in France many regions with their diverse original culture and art, raising the theme of the unity of all peoples.

The European Association GRALTAN and the international company ALTAN-ART sincerely thank the Eurasian Peoples' Assembly and personally Svetlana Konstantinovna Smirnova for supporting our project!

We wish you all, dear friends, Peace, Prosperity, Strong Health, Happiness and Well-being!

May this year bring Success, Peace and Harmony! May everything that you have conceived come true!

May your Joys increase, and may Peace, Calmness Love and Happiness reign in your homes!

Be healthy, take care of yourself, dear friends!

Tatiana Lambolez, Director of ALTAN-ART in France, will host the next live broadcast within the ALL COLORS OF EURASIA International Festival. The air will be dedicated to a new project between the ALTAN-ART company, the University of Lille, the national orchestra and the Buryat Theater of Song and Dance BAIKAL.