'Qyrq Qyz (Forty Girls)' Honors Warrior Women of Central Asia
AKDN / Jennifer Hauck
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Media Source: Seven Days (USA)
Date: 28 February 2018
Copresented by the Aga Khan Music Initiative, Qyrq Qyz (Forty Girls) premieres at the Hopkins Center for the Arts on 1 March. The 86-minute Qyrq Qyz includes projected video, ambient sounds of the steppes, and live music and singing by seven young female bards. Coproducer Theodore Levin says
Copresented by the Aga Khan Music Initiative, Qyrq Qyz (Forty Girls) premieres at the Hopkins Center for the Arts on 1 March. The 86-minute Qyrq Qyz includes projected video, ambient sounds of the steppes, and live music and singing by seven young female bards. Coproducer Theodore Levin says the show presents universal archetypes and aspirations for fairness and justice that offer hope and inspiration, both for women and men.