{"id":2558,"date":"2023-02-11T16:31:13","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T13:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/igov.kz\/astana_opera\/?p=2558"},"modified":"2023-02-11T16:31:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T13:31:13","slug":"the-call-of-the-steppe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/igov.kz\/astana_opera\/en\/the-call-of-the-steppe\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>The Call of the Steppe<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">18 February &#8212; Saturday &#8212; 5.00 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">19 February &#8212; Sunday &#8212; 5.00 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Ballet in 2 acts<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Literary and artistic libretto \u2013 Bakhyt Kairbekov<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Choreographic adaptation of the libretto \u2013 Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Vazelle<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ballet&nbsp;<em>The Call of the Steppe<\/em>&nbsp;staged by the renowned choreographer Patrick de Bana will take place on the stage of the Astana Opera House.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a parable about the inspiring dream of a brave Master, told in the language of modern choreography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The director&#8217;s goal is not to tell a story, but to show fragments around which the viewer can build their own plot. And then the legend of the Bird Samruk becomes a poetic allegory that allows tracing hero&#8217;s path of life. And to give a universal character to this poetic allegory, the choreographer turns to generalized images of the Shaman, Father, Mother, Son&#8230;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The choreographer shows us the path of initiation, in which a child, passing hardships, becomes a man and the man becomes a Master \u2013 under the benevolent gaze of destiny.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ballet features works by Kuat Shildebayev, Renat Gaisin, Tolegen Mombekov, Carlos Pino-Quintana, as well as musical compositions from the repertoire of the folklore and ethnographic ensembles \u201cTuran\u201d, \u201cHassak\u201d and the ethno-jazz group \u201cSteppe Sons\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Artistic Director of the Ballet Company&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Altynai ASYLMURATOVA,&nbsp;<em>People&#8217;s Artist of Russia<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Running time \u2013 1 hours 40 minutes (with one interval)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BALLET OF THE ASTANA OPERA HOUSE&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Management reserves the right to substitute performers<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18 February &#8212; Saturday &#8212; 5.00 pm<\/p>\n<p>19 February &#8212; Sunday &#8212; 5.00 pm<\/p>\n<p>Ballet in 2 acts<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/igov.kz\/astana_opera\/en\/the-call-of-the-steppe\/\">\u041f\u0440\u043e\u0434\u043e\u043b\u0436\u0438\u0442\u044c \u0447\u0442\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0435<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&lt;strong&gt;The Call of the Steppe&lt;\/strong&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afisha-en","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/igov.kz\/astana_opera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/igov.kz\/astana_opera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/igov.kz\/astana_opera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/igov.kz\/astana_opera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/igov.kz\/astana_opera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/igov.kz\/astana_opera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2559,"href":"https:\/\/igov.kz\/astana_opera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions\/2559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/igov.kz\/astana_opera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/igov.kz\/astana_opera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/igov.kz\/astana_opera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}