The reporting concert of the participants of “Performance contest of the dance collectives” was held at Nakhchivan State Children’s Theatre.
At the event held on this occasion the minister of culture and tourism of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic Natavan Gadimova noted that as well as in all spheres of our culture, various cultural events are being carried out in the autonomous republic in the direction of promoting our national dances. Buying new national dance costumes for dance collectives, improvement of their material and technical base is in the focus of our state.
It was noted that promotion of our national dances, revealing of talented performers, correct orientation of their creative potential, as well as the regulations of the competition held on preparation for events to be organized in Nakhchivan, the capital of Islamic culture in 2018, the composition of the organization committee and the jury was approved. “Performance contest of the dance collectives” started in November this year, the qualifying round was held in the regions. In accordance with the regulations non-professional dance collectives participated in the contest. 22 collectives took part in the qualifying round, on the basis of the results 11 collectives got the right to participate in the main round. In this round, the performances of the dance collectives on yalli and dance performance were awarded on a ten-point system based on relevant criteria for two nominations.
The minister expressed her gratitude to all the collectives and their group leaders, congratulated and whished them successes.
First, the minister awarded them honorary decree of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic. The winners of the yalli and dance nominations of the contest were awarded diplomas.
Then the winners of the first place were invited to the stage. “Gulustan” dance collective on dance of Julfa City Culture House, “Sharur gonchalari” children’s yalli ensemble of Sharur Region Culture House on yalli were awarded I place diplomas.
In the artistic part of the event, yallis and dances were performed by the winners and succeeded collectives.