Adygea is witnessing a veritable cultural renaissance. A symphonic orchestra, a chamber music theater and a professional orchestra of folk musical instruments (named Russkaya Udal) were all formed here within the past three years. The Kvadrat Theater Company is working on the small stage of the republic's drama theater. A picture gallery acquaints fine arts lovers with the creative work of famous painters, graphic artists, sculptors, photographers and craftsmen of Adygea, Kuban, Russia, the CIS and foreign countries. A branch of The State Museum of the Arts of Asian Peoples was opened in Maikop.

Each premiere of a chamber music theater is a spectacular event, in which graduates of the State Theater School and Maikop Art School and the St. Petersburg, Rostov and Tbilisi conservatories work. The theater began its first season in November 1994 with the premiere of Jacques Offenbach's operetta Jeanne Cries, Jean Laughs. Thus the genre of operetta made its debut on the Maikop stage. The closing of the first season culminated in a professional ballet, The Young Terpsicore staged to the music of Tchaikovsky, Minkus, Saint-Saens, Bellini and Chopin. The theater ended its second season with a premiere of Mozart's opera, Theater's Director; the first professional opera to be staged by the republic's own producers. Adygea's cinema also celebrated its birth recently. The republic's first feature film. The Twilight Hopes' was made at the Lenfilm studios by director Ruslan Khachemizov. The script was written by well-known poet Nalby Kuek. The film starred actors of Adygea's national drama theater. The Twilight Hopes won grand prize at an international film festival in Spain. The republic's folk craftsmen maintain their forefathers' traditions: reed mace and rod weaving, woodcarving, engraving, production of musical instruments and gold embroidery. Craftsmen weave tapestries and make Adygea's famous rattles, accordions and pottery. Their works are displayed at numerous exhibitions in Moscow and other Russian cities. The best samples of folk craftsmen are kept at the republic's National Museum.

The Nalmes State Dance Company and Islamei State Dance Company have received acclaim even outside of Adgyghea and Russia. They have given performances in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Siberia, the Urals, Kuban, Turkey, Syria and Jordan. Adyghe abroad, who live mostly in the Middle East and Turkey, always extend a warm welcome to them.
There are also many children's and youth amateur creative troupes such as Dyshye Kyam, Zhemchuzhina (Pearl), Adyghea's Yotuh and Kazachata (small Cossacks). They enthrall their audiences and the judges of many large international, Russian and regional festivals of folk art. The young-stars have given guest performances in Germany, the Baltics, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nalchik, Vladikavkaz, Kaliningrad and Krasnodar.

Note: This information is taken from official web site Adyghe Republic (www.istnet.ru/~kma)