Sabre Dance(Танец с саблями)

The story of the creation of the famous masterpiece, “rebellious and noisy child” by Aram Ilyich Khachaturian “Dance with swords”. The cold autumn of 1942. The second year of the war. The city of Molotov - Perm, renamed before the war itself. The Leningrad Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after Kirov was evacuated here. The world of the theater in evacuation - ghostly, hungry, cold. Life deep rear with all the signs of wartime. Half-starved ballerinas, corps de ballet, transforming on stage into wondrous "pink girls". Performances, performances in hospitals, defense factories and rehearsals, rehearsals. The final efforts to create the play “Gayane” coincide with the writing of the first bars of the Symphony N2, often overlapping. Before the last rehearsal, Khachaturian unexpectedly receives an order from the Directorate - to create another dance for the final part of the already finished ballet.