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MODERNISM IN KYIV |
Modernism in Kyivwith participation of: GENNADY ESTRAIKH (New York University) MAYHILL C. FOWLER (Princeton University) IRENA R. MAKARYK (University of Ottawa) MYROSLAVA MUDRAK (Ohio State University) VIRLANA TKACZ (Yara Arts Group)
poems by MIKHAIL SEMENKO,
read by Yara Art Group actors: Virlana Tkacz heads the Yara Arts Group and has created twenty shows which she directed at La MaMa Experimental Theatre, in New York, Kyiv, Lviv, Kharkiv, Bishkek and Ulan Ude in Siberia. She just returned from Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan where Scythian Stones, her new production with Nina Matvienko performed at festivals. Her first Yara production was A Light from the East, a docudream based on the diaries of Les Kurbas, the poetry of Pavlo Tychyna and her own dreams about creating a new world on stage. It opened the Kyiv the week the Soviet Union collapsed and Ukraine declared independence. Mayhill Fowler is a 6th year PhD Candidate in the Department of History at Princeton writing a dissertation entitled, "Beau Monde: State and Stage on Empire's Edge, Russia and Soviet Ukraine, 1916-1941," which she plans to defend next spring. Mayhill recently has spent a year in Ukraine researching the theatre. Myroslava Mudrak is Professor of History of Art at Ohio State University. She has devoted her scholarly interests to the study of art in East Central Europe, Ukraine, and Russia, concentrating on the modernist period of the early twentieth century. Her seminal work is The New Generation and Artistic Modernism in Ukraine (1986), which was awarded the Kovaliw Prize for Ukrainian Studies. Her recent publication include the exhibition catalogue (with Myroslav Shkandrij and Ihor Holubizky), David Burliuk 1882--1967: Futurism and After(2008), and Beyond Borders: Ukrainian Book Design 1914-1945 (2008). Gennady Estraikh is the Clinical Professor of Yiddish Studies at New York University, a writer at Forverts, a weekly Yiddish newspaper of the American Jewish community. His most recent monograph is Yiddish in Cold War (2008). Two of the books that he recently co-edited are about members of the Kiev group of Yiddish writers: David Bergelson: From Modernism to Socialist Realism (2007) and A Captive Of The Dawn: The Life And Work Of Peretz Markish (forthcoming). Irena R. Makaryk is a professor of English at the University of Ottawa. Her research interests focus on Shakespeare’s afterlife, Les Kurbas, and theatre during periods of great social duress. Recent publications include Shakespeare in the Undiscovered Bourn: Les Kurbas, Ukrainian Modernism, and Early Soviet Cultural Politics (2004), short-listed for the Raymond Klibansky Prize for the best scholarly book published in English in the humanities in Canada. The book has recently been translated and published in Ukraine.
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