Kalantarova biography

Photo: Asia -Plus from the first days of work, this woman gained great fame, and she was rightfully called “Malikai Sakhna” - the queen of the stage.

On this day, we decided to tell you about the artist’s creative path, about why she left the country, and how she arranged her life in a foreign land: she told us all this a few years ago. None of the relatives had anything to do with art. In their large family, everyone addressed the young mazole affectionately: "Margosha, Margarita." The first applause was bestowed by the neighbors, before whom she arranged her concerts.

If we talk about where she began to study professional basics, then these were classes in the House of Culture and in the children's studio of the theater. According to the honored artist of the republic, the head of the Padida Theater Studio Sharofat Rashidova, they were friendly with Malika from childhood, when they went to the dance studio of the so-called “Jewish theater” so, it turns out that the people were called the Russian Drama Theater named after More often I sang, she danced.

In the summer of the year, a set of dancers began in the new state dance ensemble "Lola", the leader of which was appointed the famous Tajik choreographer Gaffor Valamatzade. Malika Kalantarova, having learned about the set, Malika, who only arrived from the pioneer camp, without even asking her parents, ran to the Green Theater. No one even paid attention to a small girl dressed in battered home clothes, as there were a lot of beautiful and tall girls.

All of them danced in front of Valamatzade, and the viewing on this ended. He looked at her incredulously, asked how old she was. Valamatzade said that she would come when he grows up. At this time, he talked with someone, then stopped and looked for a long time, without saying a word. When the dance ended, I immediately took up another. Thus began my creative life in a real dance team.

Aini ensemble "Lola" held its first concert, where mass dances were mainly performed. With feeling. He taught me to delve into the essence of the dance, to be the mistress of the stage. I still remember the dress from Kreudereshin, a green camisole, a long scarf, a crown ... who would have thought that at the age of 15 I would dance like that! After the concert, the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Mehrubon Nazarov came for the backstage.

Showed me. I showed high -heeled shoes. He asked my name. I answered. After everyone, everyone began to be called Malika. To be honest, I always liked the great ballerina Malika Sabirov, so I was glad to be her namesake. And when the tour began, she had to study on her own. Together with the ensemble, she traveled the entire Soviet Union. The first foreign tours of the Maliki began in the year with Belgium, where she fell as part of artists under the leadership of Ahmad Babakulov.

From the dancers they took Zebo Aminzade and her. Malika Kalantarova Kino-theater. At concerts, Malika had only one dance number. Seeing how the Belgian audience accepts her warmth, representatives of the Ministry of Culture gave instructions to add the number of her performances. According to Saydali Gadoev, the chief choreographer of the Lola children's ensemble, they met Malika Kalantarova in the year to prepare a festive concert when he was still a student at the choreographic school.

In life, she was so modest. Often on the tour, where we went, she did not leave the hotel - she sewed the details to her dance outfits. Of course, she was envied, but she never attached importance to this. The costs of the profession and how many bruises, stretch marks and fractures she received in the process of her professional career! Once in the year in Varzoba, in the process of filming a dance number, she accidentally turned her leg.

The shooting could not be canceled, she was taken to the nearest first -aid post and injured novocaine to drown out the pain. When this number was scrolled on television, I always remembered this moment. Indeed, it was she, Malika Kalantarova, who could, like a graceful doe in a jump, take off over the stage and also quickly land to his knees. The older -generation spectators remember this enchanting dance - “Shodiyna” ...

The director precisely this dance asked Malik Kalantarov in the year the famous Soviet choreographer, director of the State Song and Dance Ensemble of the USSR Igor Moiseev, who called it “eastern miracle” and believed that Malika “made a revolution in the eastern folk dance”. At first, Malika did not agree, because she herself had a teacher - Gaffor Valamatzade.

But Moiseev said that he wants to see her dance director. She was immediately sent to Moscow. The dance was very dynamic, it was necessary to jump over the stage, while retaining plastic, and I taught the guys to do this. For the second dance - “Goryanka of Tajikistan” - I specially ordered Kulyaba chakans and jewelry. With this dance, Moiseev traveled many countries of the world, they wrote a lot about it, I even preserved newspapers of those years where it is written that I am a dance director.The departure of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Civil War in Tajikistan became the reason that in the year Malika and its family left for the States.

In life, I differ from my image, so they did not recognize me. When I replied that these were my portraits, they did not believe and asked to prove. I had to dance in front of them. Seeing the veracity of my words, they left ... Now Malika Kalantarova and her family lives in the Kuins New York area. The dream of her whole life was the creation of a school of oriental dance. To open this school, Malika worked in trade, sold dishes.

The school is taught folk Tajik, Bukhara, Uzbek, Indian dances, and Latin American dances are also practiced. Friend and support, as Malika herself admitted in one interview, for her in the first place was always her profession, which she completely devoted herself to. In the family she was supported in every possible way. By the way, the husband of Malika Kalantarova - the famous doyist, honored artist of the republic Ilyas Gulkarov - supported her in all endeavors.

He fell in love with her at first sight, when she was just starting to dance in the Green Theater, where she rehearsed with the Lola ensemble. She set the condition that she would get married when she gets some title. Ilyas had to wait. And only when in the year Malika received the title of Honored Artist of the Tajik SSR, they got married. You involuntarily recall the events of April, when in the program “Let them speak” the Russian television channel Malik Kalantarova made a public recognition: her son Arthur changed the floor and became Samira.

To declare to the whole world this was an extraordinary courage. But Malika coped. At first, no one supported the decision of Arthur to change the floor - neither mother, nor father, nor brother. But when Malika Kontarova realized that she might lose her child, she took her side. Malika Kalantarova on the right and her daughter Samira smeared on the left on the television program "Let them talk." What was my surprise when on the street a group of boys years old, seeing me, cried out: “Look, this is a Malika Kalantarova!

I asked how they know me, because 20 years have passed and the young generation of the republic, born after my departure, was unlikely to know me. The boys explained that they saw me on TV, where they scrolled my dances. And they also said that when their little sisters arrange their concerts in front of their mothers, they, in turn, admiring their dance, often exclaim: “Well, you are straight to Kalantarov’s Malik!

I was so happy! The delegation consisting of 50 people, which the artist herself included, arrived in Dushanbe for the celebration of the state independence of Tajikistan. Malika Kalantarova with her husband visiting the Asia-Plus radio station, September this fall, stay with us in Telegram, Facebook, Instagram, Yandex.