Shuhed Hasan, tradition Indian vocal Denis Kucherov, North Indian percussion tabla Elizaveta Moroz, director Pavel Novikov, Pravin, art director of traditional Indian ensemble Hindustani. Ivan Velikanov, conductor of vocal ensemble of baroque soloists India has always preoccupied artists’ imagination. A famous opera-ballet “Gallant India” (also translated as “The Amorous Indies”) by Jean-Philippe Rameau is one of the most well-known music oeuvres dedicated to the exotic country. Versatile musician and composer, Petr Glavatskikh plays numerous percussion instruments, and he is glad to present his own musical India to the audience of “Zaryadye”. Sure, some inspiration comes from Rameau’s classics, while the main star is Shriya Saran, famous Bollywood actress, and a dancer of classic Indian Kathak. In “Zaryadye”, the stage partner of Shriya is her own tutor, the legendary guru Nathan Padvarghan. Together they perform in Russia for the very first time. Hindustani, a traditional Indian ensemble led by Pavel Novikov, and vocal ensemble of baroque soloists conducted by Ivan Velikanov, take part in the concert, too. Only Petr Glavatsikh, who is not coincidentally referred to as “the ideologist of contemporary Russian drumming”, can figure out how to combine so many different music traditions in one concert. By the way, he is not about ideology only: Glvatskikh has a dangerous mission – to evoke with his percussions “savages”. It was the word then-intolerant Europeans used for representatives of other cultures.