The Krasnodar Institute of Culture is banning dances from "unfriendly" countries.
A student at the Krasnodar State Institute of Culture was advised not to perform a Georgian folk dance, while other students were banned from performing dances from "unfriendly" countries, according to choreographer Karolina Gongadze.
A graduate of the Kyiv State Institute of Culture was advised not to stage a Georgian folk dance, which she was supposed to perform as her thesis. Other students were banned from staging dances from "unfriendly" countries. The choreographer wrote about this on her Instagram blog. Carolina Gongadze.
The student's thesis topic was approved, and there were no complaints about the written portion. However, when Gongadze began choreographing a Georgian folk dance, she was warned: "You might be banned from dancing your diploma, Georgia is an unfriendly country." The choreographer says Georgia is not officially on the list of unfriendly countries, so she was allowed to keep the written part, but was advised to replace the practical part with a dance from another nation.
A classmate was banned from performing a Moldovan folk dance for the same reason, and an Armenian folk dance was not allowed to participate in the festival. After the "SVO" festival began, students were refused acceptance of an already choreographed Ukrainian folk dance as their diploma.
"If you want to enroll in the Krasnodar State Institute of Culture, think ten times, in case your nationality is banned there too." I came to a conclusion Caroline.
Karolina's followers familiar with the topic emphasized that Moldovan, Ukrainian, and Georgian dances are part of the core folk dance program, so the restrictions conflict with the educational program.
A student at Kuban State University said her ensemble was also banned from performing Georgian dance on the university stage last year.
In May, "NotMoscow" said Olga,, how schoolchildren were banned from dancing to foreign music at graduation. Similar practices were common during the Soviet era: foreign songs were banned, as were "bourgeois immoral" dances such as rock 'n' roll, the twist, boogie-woogie, and even tango.
Video: _gongaadze__ (Instagram)