All-Russian folklore competition. Folklore festivals and competitions
Few people know the fact that folklore fashion is not modern trend. And folklore festivals are not an innovation, but a return to the roots. Interest in traditional musical cultures, folklore, continues from the beginning of the history of European music. folk song and folk culture were in many ways the ancestors of European music. The role of folklore, its influence and meaning have changed and been different in every corner of the continent, but have always remained. After all, folk music is the music of all people, without distinction of class origin, financial situation or gender
Folk dances and songs found their way in unchanged or improved form not only into the halls of magnificent palaces and estates, but also inspired religious creativity. Used folklore opera composers who sought rich and varied means of shaping their fantasies. At each fair, musicians not only played “local music, but also depicted a certain stage image typical for her.
Folk music was a sound reflection folk legends, fairy tales or myths. She talked about love, ignorance, fear. The simplicity with which folk music expressed joy and sincerity, with which the music spoke about suffering, did not allow it to be forgotten even in the times of the great classical geniuses. This, as well as the desire of people to know their roots better, became the reasons for the great revival folk song in the 20th century. Nowadays folk music has become part of the regular program of most festivals, and many folk festivals have appeared.
And as soon as the time for festivals approaches, a lot of fans go on a trip throughout Europe. There is something special, magical about folklore festivals that is not found in any other form of public entertainment. Many people go to these same places year after year. Every time at such folklore festivals one gets acquainted with fantastic singers, artists, choirs, the public about whom one can usually only read about in the media and see on the silver screen. Festivals are not only an artistic program with leisure, but also a whole preparatory process, where the first place is the travel, which often evokes no less emotions than the performance itself. Many have made their own tradition out of the trip to the folklore festival - they travel by bus, train, or plane while having a wonderful time. Very often, groups take their friends and relatives with them to the folklore festival. Equally popular have become international exchanges organized to gain intercultural experience, improve the level of performance and develop tolerance towards other societies. Folk music has now begun not only to represent the culture of a given country, but also to address, as is noticeable at folk festivals, ethnicity and ethnic values.
More than 300 artists from the Siberian, Yenisei and Transbaikal Cossack societies came to Irkutsk to show the richness of the original Cossack culture. Participants in the interregional stage of the All-Russian folklore competition “Cossack Circle” were greeted with bread and salt at the Taltsy Museum.
The festival opened with a prayer service, which was conducted by the military priest of the Irkutsk Alexander Nevsky Church, Priest Mark. The participants were welcomed on behalf of Governor Sergei Levchenko by the Deputy Chairman of the regional government, Valentina Voblikova. She expressed confidence that the all-Russian “Cossack Circle”, which started in the region for the first time, will become traditional:
- IN Irkutsk region They highly honor the traditions of their ancestors and have great respect for people who revive and preserve national culture, especially Cossack culture.
According to the ataman of the Irkutsk Military Cossack Society Nikolai Shakhov, primary associations are today registered in 36 municipalities. Their task is the military-patriotic education of young people, preparing the Cossacks to defend their homeland.
During two days folklore groups from different corners countries fully reflected the wealth of musical, dance, festive, ritual, family and everyday Cossack culture.
A touching program was prepared by the Slyudyansk ensemble “Zadorinki”.
- Why are you standing in a hat?
- Because I am a Cossack!
- Why is there a fire in the heart?
“The heart just beats like that,” the guys cheerfully sang the composition, the music for which was composed by the director of the ensemble, Irina Astashova. During a break between speeches, she said that she began developing Cossack culture in Slyudyanka 18 years ago. The team’s immediate plans are to finish work on the theatrical performance “How Ermak Conquered Siberia” in order to present it at the regional competition.
The exhibition of Cossack crafts was replete with products made of clay, birch bark, straw, beads, there were many folk dolls, amulets, elegant towels, towels and other household and cultural items.
An interesting collection was prepared by Elena Mikheeva from the village of Kazachye, Bokhansky district. Unusual church with twisted domes newspaper tubes, samovar with cups, painted nesting dolls. Most of all, the guests' attention was attracted by dolls made from plastic glasses. Some wear costumes typical of the Cossacks of the Don and Kuban, others wear military uniform. Toy young ladies demonstrated the richness of Russian folk dresses.
– I design the costumes myself. Recently, the Cossack ensemble “Ermakov Swans” sewed new outfits for themselves, I decided to make the same for my dolls,” the craftswoman admitted.
She teaches all these wisdom to children in the Cossack circle “Wonderful Workshop”.
The Ushakovo Cossack society was represented by folk ensemble"Nivushka" and children's ensemble"Cossacks."
– Such festivals are the apotheosis of activity creative teams, – says the head of the Ushakovsky municipal district, Alexander Kuznetsov. “We started preparing for the Cossack Circle competition last year. In the farm Cossack community there is a cadet Cossack club, where children are introduced to the basics of military training, taught how to disassemble and assemble weapons, and train accuracy skills. Another task of our Cossacks is to protect the forest from black loggers and fires, and to ensure the protection of public order.
In total, 36 people took part in the Cossack Circle festival artistic groups. The Irkutsk Military Cossack Society received three first-degree diplomas at once. They went to the folk ensemble “Spinning” of the Kuitunsky district, the folklore group “Cossack Circle” of the Kirensky district and the Cossack ensemble “Ladya” from Bratsk.
08.06.2017
On May 27, the Moscow qualifying round military Cossack society "Central Cossack army» All-Russian folklore competition “Cossack Circle-2017”. The event was held by decision of the Presidential Council Russian Federation for Cossack Affairs with the support of the Moscow Government and the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. It was attended by 19 teams representing the Central Cossack Army.
The main goal of the event is to popularize and support traditional Cossack culture, song and performing arts. This competition is aimed at developing the original Cossack folk art and folklore, strengthening spiritual ties between generations. The organizers of the Moscow qualifying stage were the Department national policy and interregional relations of the city of Moscow, the State Russian House of Folk Art and the military Cossack society “Central Cossack Army”.
The performances of the contestants were evaluated by a competent jury, which included: an adviser to the folk art department and visual arts Department of State Support of Art and Folk Art of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Executive Secretary of the Permanent Specialized Commission for Promoting the Development of Cossack Culture of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for Cossack Affairs Irina Vyacheslavovna Povkh; choirmaster, folklore specialist at the State Russian House of Folk Art named after. Polenova Lidiya Gennadievna Rogacheva; deputy general director Center for Cultural Strategies and project management(Roskultproekt) - head State Center Russian folklore, member of the permanent specialized commission for promoting the development of Cossack culture of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for Cossack Affairs, chief choirmaster of the Moscow State Musical Theater "Russian Song", artistic director folk choir Russian Academy music named after the Gnessins Dmitry Viktorovich Morozov.
The chairman of the jury was a military foreman, deputy ataman of the military Cossack society "Central Cossack Army" for cultural and educational activities, head of the 1st Working group permanent specialized commission for promoting the development of Cossack culture of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for Cossack Affairs Dmitry Leonidovich Ivanov.
“The All-Russian folklore competition “Cossack Circle” is the only state competition of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation in the region Cossack folklore, - said Dmitry Ivanov in his commentary. – In total, there will be four federal qualifying stages in four territorial blocks, which will unite several federal districts. Representatives of all Cossack troops located on Russian territory will take part in the competition.”
The following teams won the Moscow qualifying stage:
- folk ensemble of accordion players “Naughty Busts”, Tula region, head Anatoly Mikhailovich Silkin;
- Cossack song ensemble “Stanichniki”, Voronezh region, head Sotnik Natalya Nikolaevna;
- Cossack ensemble “Rus”, Kursk region, directors Vladimir Viktorovich Shchegolev and Vasily Vladimirovich Gritsepenov;
- Ensemble “Cossack Village” KhKO “Razumovsky”, Moscow, director Tatyana Valerievna Eliseeva;
- Cossack youth ensemble "Falcon", Moscow, director Stepan Yurievich Nesterov.
The winners of the qualifying stage will represent the Central Cossack Army at the interregional (military) stage of the All-Russian folklore competition “Cossack Circle”, which will be held in Kolomna, Moscow Region in August 2017.
On October 8-11, 2017, a Interregional (military) stage of the All-Russian folklore competition “Cossack Circle”.
The All-Russian folklore competition “Cossack Circle” was held in pursuance of the Decision of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for Cossack Affairs in accordance with the action plan for the implementation of the Development Strategy in 2017-2020 public policy Russian Federation in relation to the Russian Cossacks.
Founders of the competition: Council under the President of the Russian Federation for Cossack Affairs, Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.
The organizers of the interregional (military) stage of the competition were: Federal State Budgetary Institution “State Russian House of Folk Art named after. V.D. Polenova", Rostovsky regional house folk art with the support of military Cossack societies.
The competition was attended by Cossack authentic (ethnographic), folklore secondary and stylized (stage) groups and individual performers - representatives All-Great Army Don, as well as Kuban, Terek, Volga military Cossack societies.
We present to you the minutes of the jury meeting to sum up the results and determine the winners. The laureates of the competition will take part in the final gala concert of the All-Russian folklore competition “Cossack Circle” in Moscow in 2018.
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PROTOCOL
jury meeting to sum up the results of the interregional (military) stage of the All-Russian Folklore
competition "Cossack Circle"
PRESENT:
Chairman of the jury:
Permyakova Alexandra Andreevna - artistic director of the State Academic Russian Folk Choir named after M.E. Pyatnitsky, member of the Council for Culture under the President of the Russian Federation, People's Artist Russian Federation, laureate of the Government of the Russian Federation Prize in the field of culture, professor, Moscow
Jury members:
Sorokin Petr Alekseevich - professor of Moscow state institute culture, head of the folklore department of the State Russian House of Folk Art named after V.D. Polenov, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, laureate of the Government of the Russian Federation Prize “Soul of Russia”, Moscow
Gavrilov Nikolai Konstantinovich - conductor of the orchestra of the State Academic Russian Folk Choir named after M.E. Pyatnitsky, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, laureate of the Government of the Russian Federation Prize in the field of culture, Moscow
Buvol Alexander Alexandrovich- artistic director of the State Academic ensemble songs and dances of the Don Cossacks named after A.N. Kvasov, Rostov-on-Don
Venglevsky Alexander Albinovich - artistic director of the folklore ensemble "Volnitsa", Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation, laureate of the Government of the Russian Federation Prize "Soul of Russia", Rostov-on-Don
AGENDA: summing up the results of the interregional (military) stage of the All-Russian folklore competition “Cossack Circle”.
DECIDED: based on the results of the interregional (military) stage of the All-Russian folklore competition "Cossack Circle" to award:
"VOLGA MILITARY COSSACK SOCIETY"
LAUREATE DIPLOMA - -
1st degree diploma - -
II degree diploma
Exemplary song and dance ensemble “Kazachata”, Penza (director - Svetlana Smirnova);
Folklore Cossack ensemble “Zarev”, Republic of Tatarstan, Bugulma (leader - Alexey Zhernakov);
III degree diploma - -
Participant diploma - Cossack duet “Tsveten”, Udmurt Republic, Grakhovsky district, village. Grakhovo (head - Nikolay Gavshin).
"KUBAN MILITARY COSSACK SOCIETY"
WINNER DIPLOMA - folk ensemble of Cossack songs "Ear", Krasnodar region, Tikhoretsk (director - Honored Cultural Worker of Kuban Valentina Khizhnyakova);
1st degree diploma - -
II degree diploma
in children's and youth age groups:
Children's Cossack song ensemble "Chubariki", Krasnodar region, Labinsk (director - Oksana Khrabrova);
in the adult and youth age groups:
Folk amateur group vocal ensemble "Gorlitsa", Krasnodar region, Art. Novodmitrievskaya (head - Nikolai Tortopidi);
Russian ensemble folk instruments « Voiced strings", Krasnodar region, Krylovsky district, art. Krylovskaya (head - Maria Gileva);
III degree diploma - -
Special prize for artistry, for sincerity - Ksenia Bezmolenko, Gleb Pylin (children's Cossack song ensemble "Chubariki", Krasnodar region, Labinsk. Director - Oksana Khrabrova).
"TERESK MILITARY COSSACK SOCIETY"
LAUREATE DIPLOMA - folklore ensemble“Sretenye”, Stavropol region, Shpakovsky district, village. Verkhnerusskoye (head - Vladimir Kuznetsov);
I degree diploma - folk folklore Cossack ensemble "Tertsy", Republic of North Ossetia-Alania (director - Honored Worker of Culture of North Ossetia-Alania Elena Churkina);
Diploma II degree - -
III degree diploma - -
"ALL GREAT DON ARMY"
WINNER DIPLOMA - Municipal Cossack Song Ensemble " Orthodox Don", art. Bokovskaya, Rostov region (head - Honored Worker of Culture of Russia, Laureate of the Government of the Russian Federation “Soul of Russia” Prize Gennady Vecherkin)
1st degree diploma
Folklore Cossack choir"Donshchina", Art. Bagaevskaya, Rostov region (head - Leonid Yachushko);
Folk ensemble of Cossack songs “Cossacks of the Don”, Art. Kuteynikovskaya, Zimovnikovsky district, Rostov region (head - Evgeny Chernyshov);
Vocal ensemble “Youth of the Don”, Rostov-on-Don, Rostov region (director - Alexander Topchiy).
Diploma of the 2nd degree - ensemble of traditional songs of the Astrakhan Cossacks, Astrakhan Astrakhan region (head - Alexandra Smirnova)
III degree diploma
Folk dance ensemble “Walk, Russians”, Azov, Rostov region (artistic director - Natalya Serdyuk, choreographer - Vladislav Yakushev);
Folk ensemble of folk songs “Igritsa”, Belaya Kalitva Rostov region (head - Svetlana Sirik);
- folk ensemble of Cossack songs “Stanichniki”, Donetsk, Rostov region (director - Lydia Kovalenko);
Folk ensemble of Cossack songs “Razdolie”, r.p. Deep, Kamensky district, Rostov region (head - Sergey Chukarin);
Folklore ensemble "Stanitsa", Proletarsk, Rostov region (director - Vladimir Nazarov);
Ballet group of the Municipal Song and Dance Ensemble “Nadezhda”, Shakhty, Rostov Region (director - Nadezhda Tikhonova);
Municipal Song and Dance Ensemble "Don Lights", Art. Veshenskaya, Sholokhovsky district, Rostov region (head - Alexander Chudin).
For the preservation of the Cossacks ritual traditions- folk folklore and ethnographic ensemble “Pokrov”, Volgograd (director - Victoria Putilovskaya).
For fidelity to the Cossack song tradition - folklore and ethnographic ensemble "Azure Tsvet", Molodezhny village, Kamensky district, Rostov region (director - Larisa Shishkalova).
We wish the participants creative success!
Teams from Transbaikalia became participants in the Interregional (military) stage
All-Russian folklore competition "Cossack Circle"
In Irkutsk on August 5-6, 2017, on the territory of the Taltsy architectural and ethnographic museum, the Interregional (military) stage of the All-Russian folklore competition “Cossack Circle” was held. More than 300 artists from Irkutsk, Siberian, Yenisei and Transbaikal Cossack societies came to show the richness of the original Cossack culture - adult, youth and children's Cossack folklore, vocal, dance groups and individual performers.
The founders of the festival are the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for Cossack Affairs, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.
The organizers were the State Russian House of Folk Art named after. V.D. Polenova, Ministry of Culture and Archives of the Irkutsk Region, Irkutsk Regional House of Folk Art, Irkutsk Military Cossack Society.
The festival opened with a prayer service, which was conducted by the military priest of the Irkutsk Alexander Nevsky Church, Priest Mark. The participants were welcomed on behalf of Governor Sergei Levchenko by the Deputy Chairman of the regional government, Valentina Voblikova. Over the course of two days, folklore groups from different parts of the country fully reflected the wealth of musical, dance, festive, ritual, family and everyday Cossack culture. In total, 36 artistic groups took part in the Cossack Circle festival - more than 300 participants.
The competition was judged by a competent jury:
Povkh Irina Vyacheslavovna – Advisor to the Department of Folk Art and Fine Arts of the Department of State Support of Art and Folk Art of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Moscow;
Shakhov Nikolay Ivanovich - Ataman of the Irkutsk military Cossack society, Cossack general, Irkutsk;
Kulibaba Sergey Ivanovich – Head of Department of the Center national cultures State Russian House of Folk Art named after. V.D. Polenova, Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation, Candidate of Art History, Moscow;
Venglevsky Alexander Albinovich – Artistic director of the folklore ensemble “Volnitsa”, Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation, laureate of the Government of the Russian Federation “Soul of Russia” Prize, Rostov-on-Don;
Kornev Mikhail Georgievich – Director, artistic director of the Irkutsk City Drama Theater, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, Irkutsk;
Rogacheva Lidiya Gennadievna – Specialist in folklore of the folklore department of the State Russian House of Folk Art named after. V.D. Polenova, Moscow.
The Trans-Baikal Territory was adequately represented by four teams. Based on the results of the competition third place went to the people's vocal ensemble“Silkari” from the town of Shilka, second place went to the folk family ensemble “Razdolye” from the village. Maleta, Petrovsk-Zabaikalsky district, “The Grand Prix of the competition was won by the family folk ensemble of the Ryumkins from the village. Zasopka, Chita district, which will later go to the final gala concert in Moscow.
Congratulations to our colleagues on a worthy performance!
Family ensemble "Razdolye" Maleta.
