Discovering distant artistic traditions

In its approach to exploring the mysteries of the world's cultures and artistic traditions, the Fes Festival of Sacred Music offered the large public present on June 16 at the Batha Museum the opportunity to discover the Uzbek and Kazakh songs and poetry of the female trio Bardic Divas. Composed of Raushan Urazbayeva and Ulzhan Baibussynova (Kazakhstan), as well as Nodira Pirmatova (Uzbekistan), Bardic Divas embodies today the excellence of a poetry and culture influenced by the Silk Road, precious stones, ancient palaces, and the nomadic steppes of Central Asia. Heroic poetry is the common jewel of nomadic herders, from the Caspian Sea to the Sea of Japan, which these three women appropriate, giving it a touch of feminine softness and nomadic nobility. Artists at heart, they treated the audience to a magical performance where poetry and music coexist, complement, and sublimate each oth…