THE DANCE THEATRE

THE DANCE THEATRE o f  t h e  S t e r l i t a m a k  P h i l h a r m o n i c.  Created in 1991. The founder and first art director was H.A. Ishberdin. The   repertoire   is   based   on smaller  ballet performances, musically choreographed miniatures and dance. The compositions are mainly based on the topics of folklore such as Burzyan  horsemen,  Insebika, Port  Arthur, Bait about the Urals, The Heart of Bashkurt, Saptar, At  the  walls  of  the Reichstag, Vasily Tyorkin, as well as Russian, Azerbaijan, Tajik, Tatar, Mari, Chuvash, Ukraine, Chechen, Argentine and others folk dancing. The Dance Theatre toured in Russia and abroad (Belgium, Holland, the Netherlands, Turkey, Uzbekistan, etc). It was the Laureate of the    Berdemlek–Sodruzhestvo    International Festival of Folk Cultures (Ufa, 2007), as well as the student folk festival (Warfum, the Netherlands; and Shotten, Belgium; both took place in 2006) and other such events.