Alexandr POPOVCHENKO


Dancing-song of folklore
The Collective - (1.17MB MP3 File)

The Night Has Come
(1.3MB MP3 File)

Musical Theatre of Russian Traditional Folklore - "KRYNITSY"

"KRYNITSA" is an ancient Russian word designating a spring (water). The traditional national songs are about the original springs being inexhaustible to this day, and a spiritual source of the ancient people.

The Collective: Unites 10 actors.

Repertoire: Songs from before the Christian period and songs of village Russia from a different epoch (in the form of performance and in the form of a concert). The performance is spoken in the original dialects. All costumes are made by the actors of the collective and are exact copies of the ancient Russian originals.

The chief: Alexandr POPOVCHENKO - founder and the author - director of collective, has ended the Moscow State school of Gnesins; the winner of the premium of Krasnoyarsk Region in the field of traditional national art culture; the owner of Grand Prix of the All-Russia competition "Uralskie samozwety"; the participant of the international festivals of folklore and ethnography.

It is remarkable that all musical tools are made by the chief of collective and are exact copies of the ancient Russian originals. These musical tools have huge value in the world as works of art.

The activity of Alexandr POPOVCHENKO is not limited to manufacturing of musical tools, singing and to supervise in ensemble: Alexandr POPOVCHENKO is a deep connoisseur of Russian antiquity. Having penetrated in spheres of an antiquity, Alexandr POPOVCHENKO has original isoteric knowledge with intercultural spiritual value.

Please excuse any confusion you may experience when reading above, it's probably due to my inadequate ability to accurately translate Russian. I'll keep trying to do better... - Clay