AKKANAT

Biography

Ballet in 2 acts, 3 scenes.

Choreography and staging - Dauren Abirov.

Characters and performers: Akkanat - Firuza Ultanbayeva; Asan - Abduakhim Asylmuratov.

A violent sandstorm turned the land into a dead desert. The girl Akkanat, wishing to save her native people from death, turns to the Sun. The mighty luminary agrees to return warmth and joy to people, but Akkanat must perish from the flame of its rays. The people did not want to reconcile with her death, and by the power of their imagination turn the girl into a white bird - a symbol of peace, goodness, and life.

Bibliography

• Сарынова Л.П. Легенда о белой птице. Балетное искусство Казахстана. – Научное издание. – Алма-Ата: «Наука» Казахской ССР, 1976 – 176 стр. – С.119-129, 152, 153.
• Садыкова А.А. Балетный театр Газизы Жубановой на примере балетов «Акканат» и «Хиросима». – Наука, новые технологии и инновации Кыргызстана, №11, 2018 год. – С. 134.