Dagestan Puppet Theatre participates in V Astrakhan International festival "Caspian shore"

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Makhachkala, October 7, 2016. Dagestan State Puppet Theatre with the performance "Aladdin and the magic lamp" has won in three categories at the V International Festival of Puppet Theaters “Caspian Coast” held October 1 - 5 in Astrakhan. Dagestan puppeteers took the awards in the categories “Best art direction”, “Best scenography” and “Best background music”.

About two dozen performances have been shown during the five-day festival. As informed, the artists from Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kalmykia, Dagestan, from the cities of the Volga, Astrakhan, Moscow and Orenburg regions demonstrated their spectacles at the scene of Astrakhan Drama Theatre.

Dagestan puppeteers presented the well-loved by Dagestan audience Alexander Polyakov’s "Aladdin and the magic lamp" to the highly professional jury and the most demanding connoisseur – the children. Its premiere took place in July 2014 and became the vivid evidence of the strong potential of Dagestan Puppet Theater.

"We have been much impressed by the festival and enjoyed the communication with the colleagues - the theatrical professionals. We presented our work and got acquainted with the experience of other theater groups from the Russian and Caspian regions. I think we reached the main goal of the festival - to unite the best examples of national cultures and traditions and to provoke interest among the newer generations to the art"- the artistic and theater director Aminat Yakhyaeva confessed.

The founders and organizers of the International Puppet Theater Festival of the Caspian states "Caspian shore" are the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Union of Theatre Workers of the Russian Federation (All-Russian Theatrical Society), the Ministry of Culture of Astrakhan region, an autonomous institution of culture of the Astrakhan Region "Astrakhan State Puppet Theater".

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