Contemporary ballet 'Wind-Up Bird Chronicle'

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At the end of 2019 in Maribor (Slovenia) in the frames of the international festival Dance Open, Yury Smekalov performed his short ballet The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. The piece was created for the Japanese dancer May Nagahisa. That is why a traditional Japanese theme of the Kabuki Theater was chosen. In this work, Bhima used a combination of Japanese melodies and rhythms of his own composition and industrial trip-hop sound.

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The number of the figure skater Elizaveta Tuktamysheva was put on this music. Elizaveta took the second prize at the World Figure Skating Championships, the third prize at the Russian Figure Skating Cup 2020 and won the gold medal at the Moscow stage of the 2020/21 Grand Prix with this skating program.