Le musée du quai Branly, ethnographic museum in Paris, recently hosted the show of “Kyrk Kyz” play (Forty girls) by famous Uzbek artist and director Saodat Ismailova, who tells the story of forty girls based on the epic of the same name. The project was implemented with the support of the Aga Khan Music Initiative, the National Centre for Contemporary Art Le Fresnoy (France), the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Hopkins Center and the Dartmouth College (USA). Saodat Ismailova said the idea of creating the project came from her childhood and the stories of her grandmother – a story about forty girls who defended their lands.