The Little Humpbacked Horse

Ballet in three acts
2h 15min 12+
music

Anatoliy Korolev

libretto

Libretto Vyacheslav Samodurov and Bogdan Korolyok


conductor
stage director and choreographer
Choreography

Антон Пимонов

fragments of choreography

Александра Горского (1912)

texts
Set design and costumes
Lighting
assistant choreographer
archival research
stage manager
executive producer

The action of The Little Humpbacked Horse begins in a fabulous Ural village, then the characters enter the chambers of Khan Kirghizsky, go to a magical island and to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean. In the finale, when Ivan is married to The Tsar Maiden, Russians, Kyrgyz and The Gypsies dance (The Gypsies must come out in the bolshoi ballet, wherever the action takes place), as well as special Ural people.

That's exactly what happened in the play, first performed in St. Petersburg a century and a half ago. He stayed on stage for a long time, choreographers supplemented him with more and more new numbers, according to current fashions, so that the The Little Humpbacked turned into a ballet concert based on the famous fairy tale by Pyotr Ershov. This is how the Horse will appear today — the ballet show of our time. East and West will meet here, the Urals are real and fabulous, ancient and new choreography, and rap will connect all eight ballet paintings. Perhaps the audience will be able to recognize themselves in the heroes of the play — the Ural people endowed with wonderful power.



Doors open
1h before the beginning
Act I
35min
Interval
20min
Act II
30min
Interval
15min
Act III
35min
Finish
 
Awards

Sverdlovsk Regional Theatre Award

Bravo!

Special Jury Prize «for the novelty of the dialogue with the audience»

2021

National Theatre Award 

Golden Mask

The work of a conductor in ballet (Pavel Klinichev)

2021
Award of the Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region

For outstanding achievements in literature and art

2021