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BRAMA, June 14, 2000, 7:00pm EST
"Ancestral Voices" opens in Ohio
CLEVELAND, OH - "Ancestral Voices," an original dance-theatre piece based on Ukrainian folk songs and poetry, opens on June 29 and runs for only 3 performances through July 1 at INSIDE art gallery.
Fusing modern dance, puppetry, music and theatre, ³Ancestral Voices² explores an ancient story of 2 sisters. One sister is devoured by fate, while the other only grows sweeter by it. The story draws its text from the poetry of Oleksander Oles, Lesia Ukrainka, Taras Shevchenko and Mykhailo Drai-Khmara as well as from the texts of Ukrainian folk songs. Translations have been provided by Hélène Turkewicz-Sanko, editor of "Treasury of Ukrainian Love Poems, Quotations and Proverbs" from Hippocrene Books, and Nadia Tarnawsky, a graduate student in ethnomusicology at Cleveland State University. A limited number of copies of this text signed by Dr. Turkewicz-Sanko will be available for purchase at all performances.
The piece also features Ukrainian folk music played live on Ukrainian folk instruments by master musicians: Alexander Fedoriouk on tsymbaly, Andrei Pidkivka on sopilka, Don Safranek on percussion and Nadia Tarnawsky on bandura. ³Bili holos² style singing will be provided by Divchata V Kukhni, the Girls in the Kitchen.
This world premiere is directed by Michael Flohr, designed by Anonymous 3, with musical arrangements by the Divchata V Kukhni ensemble and choreography by Natalie Kapeluck, a dancer with the Mary Miller Dance Company of Pittsburgh, PA, and Beth Salemi, an MFA candidate in dance at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH.
The bilingual piece is easily accessible to English speaking audiences and has traditional Ukrainian songs translated into English by Nadia Tarnawsky.
"Ancestral Voices" plays at INSIDE art gallery, 2393 Professor Avenue in Tremont, Thursday-Saturday,June 29, 30 and July 1, at 8:00 p.m. Tickets are $10. For more information call (216) 749-0060 or send e-mail to nmt@po.cwru.edu. Seating is limited, so reservations are highly recommended.
In the gallery, INSIDE's newest exhibit, ATAVISM, which highlights the work of 5 artists who are recent graduates, will also be on display.
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