Sold-out Palác Akropolis hall applauds to child dancers from Chechen refugee camp(Prague Watchdog) – The Chechen children dance group Marsho received ovations during as well as between individual dance numbers today the sold-out Palác Akropolis hall in Prague.
The ensemble’s repertoire comprising both martial and lyric dances and pervasive traditional Caucasus pride and unexpectedly (for many) familiar humor, enchanted several hundreds of people who managed to get tickets to the famous club in Prague.
Girls in beautiful white dresses with patterns and boys in red-and-white-and-black costumes with silver khanjars captivated the audience, including many Chechens living in the Czech Republic, right from the beginning with their first dance called “Tower” performed to the music of the Chechen anthem. Accompanied by a harmonica, a drum, and occasionally reproduced music, Marsho offered a great illustration of Chechen folklore.
The nearly two-week tour of the Chechen children group, filling theatres and clubs in Brno, Zlín, Ostrava and Prague will be concluded on Friday, January 17. Thanks to the mayor of Prague 3, Milan Český, the final performance will be held again in Žižkov, at 5 p.m., in the Congress Hall of the Olšanka Hotel.
Children from Marsho left their tent refugee camp Sputnik at the Ingush-Chechen border for a ten-day tour of the Czech Republic at the invitation of Czech civic organization Berkat.
A photograph from the concert (source: ČTK via Lidové noviny).
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