«ER TӨSTIK»
(Based on the Kazakh folk epos)
Director – K. Eshmuratova
Honored Artist of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Artists – Sh.Elembaeva, N. Klimenko
Choreographer – Yu.Amirova
Assistant Director – D. Beissenbayev, Honored Culture Worker
Assistant Director – A.Kanaeva
In ancient times, gifted with the talent of eloquence, zhyrau, zhyrshy, storytellers composed legends and spoke to the people, singing batyrs and giving parting words to the wars before the campaign, raising the warlike spirit. The play takes place today. Zhyrshy meets with a modern audience, ready to listen to the legend of the past. But, breaking the melody of the music and the rhythm of the “terme”, the rhythm of hip-hop bursts onto the stage in the recitative of rap. Since rap has earned its well-deserved place among young people as one of the most popular genres of modern hip-hop music, people quickly switched to the side of the rapper.
A verbal skirmish arises between zhyrshy and the rapper, as a result of which both masters of different musical styles come to a common decision – not to stop the performance, but to continue the story about the hero of “Er-Tostik”, each in his own rhythm. The performance tells about the fate of two elderly people who lost 8 sons, about the birth of 9 sons, about the evil charms of “zheztyrnak”, about the deceit of the king of snakes – “Babykhan”, about the meeting of Er-Tostik with new friends: Tau-Sogar and Sakkulak, about the price of friendship and love, is complemented by the fabulous rhythms of “terme” and the rhythmic recitative of Rap.
At the end of the story, two masters from different eras, zhyrshy and a rapper, come to the conclusion:
In a fairy tale – our folk heritage,
Our history in the millennium.
Whether in hip-hop, in rap, in terms, tell me,
Fairy tales will touch the strings of our soul!