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Virlana Tkacz

VIRLANA TKACZ

  
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below is a list of Virlana Tkacz's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Blind Sight         Dream Bridge         Er Toshtuk         Hitting Bedrock         Raven         Scythian Stones         Virtual Souls         Waterfall / Reflections         Wayward Wing         Yara's Forest Song

Blind Sight

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written by Virlana Tkacz, Wanda Phipps And Watoku Ueno

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Dream Bridge

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Yara Arts Group, a resident company of La MaMa Experimental theater in New York, presents Dream Bridge. the work is an original, experimental theater piece featuring Yara artists from New York, Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine. the production, created by Virlana Tkacz, is based on a Ukrainian poem "Dream" by Oleh Lysheha and uses fragments from Shakespeares Midsummer Nights Dream (mentioned in the poem), as well as the dreams and nightmares of the participants. It features Kyrgyz traditional music, as well as an electronic score by Kyiv composer Alla Zahaykevych. Interweaving performances in English, Ukrainian and Kyrgyz, "Dream Bridge" is highly visual show and completely accessible to all audiences.
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La MaMa First Floor theatre
74A East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003    27 Apr 2012

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Yara Arts Group

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piece 55 min

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Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Er Toshtuk

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This is a world premiere of an experimental theatre piece. It features artists from Kyrgyzstan and Yara Arts Group performers. It will be performed in a combination of Kyrgyz and English but will be completely accessible to American audiences. This synopsis is from the press release: "Er Toshtuk (Sir Toshtuk), a magical and darkly humorous theatre piece, is based on one of the oldest Kyrgyz epics about a journey into the underworld and out into the cosmos. Toshtuk, a young warrior, falls into the Underworld and must battle giants, monsters, and a killer cauldron as he grows up, finding love and loyal friends. the tale is a part of the cultural heritage of the people of Kyrgyzstan, a land of nomadic horsemen, whose memory is rich with the mythical adventures of ancestral warriors. the performance will be very visual, combining movement, song, dance and shadow puppetry. Movement will include a traditional shamanic dance called jinde-be (a dance of being possessed by a spirit). Music will be performed by Nurbek Serkebaev (Kyrgyzstan) on ancient instruments including the kyl-kiyak (a small, bowed, unfretted fiddle with two strings and a plaintive tone), chopo cho'or (a pottery ocarina), temir o komuz (a metal jaw's harp) and jygach ooz komuz (a wooden jaw's harp with one string, unique to Kyrgyz music, that sounds like throat singing). Costume design includes Kyrgyz embroideries incorporated into modern costumes
- nytheatre.com

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adapted by Virlana Tkacz And Roza Mukasheva; translated by Wanda Phipps

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Yara Arts Group

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Hitting Bedrock

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Our Donetsk is dying. . .Day by day, minute by minute. . .Our people are dying, our friends, our neighbors& in every home. My childhood is dying, our river, the Calmius, is dying. Shevchenko Boulevard is dying. We don't laugh anymore at the women in fur coats with their Infinities and Lexus in Donetsk City Mall on weekends. We aren't on the lookout for mayors and governors anymore. Our city, our region is dying in front of our eyes. We did not manage to protect it, or ourselves. We absolutely failed. Millions of refugees are disappointed, offended and abandoned. Individuals are trapped in the occupied area, their human rights trampled. We're a people without a future, a region without a territory. Who needs us now? Where shall these millions go? Everyone only wants to go to home. But now there is no home, our home has died, as did all our hopes, dreams, our past and present, and some have even lost their future. Not enough strength to even crack a smile.
By Oleksiy Matsuka, journalist in Donetsk, editor of Novosti Donbassa and Donetskaya Pravda, often been targeted by corrupt officials and pro-Russian separatists.

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Translated by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps

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Raven

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Raven, a performance piece created by Virlana Tkacz with Yara Arts Group and Ukrainian artists, inspired by Oleh Lysheha's poem of the same title. Yara Arts Group assembles productions based on contemporary and traditional cultures of Ukraine and the East. Oleh Lysheha is a "poet's poet," acknowledged by many to be the best contemporary poet in Ukraine. Raven speaks to our desire to explore unknowable boundaries. Sharply delineated details from everyday life transform to reveal the true nature of reality. Birds, trees and fruit bear messages for the careful observer. the forest protects the secrets of the invisible path.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
La MaMa First Floor theatre
74A East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003    08 Apr 2011

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Yara Arts Group

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performance piece

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Scythian Stones

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Yara Arts Group summons ancient epics and rituals from Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan for Scythian Stones, an original, experimental World Music theater piece with choreography. the show constructs parallel journeys for two young women, from village life and nomadic tradition into the city. their separate journeys become epic descents into the Great Below: the modern global desert where songs, skills, and languages vanish, leaving behind only mute markers like the Scythian Stones found today throughout the grasslands of Ukraine and Central Asia. the production features traditional music from Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan as well as modern music, design, and movement. Interweaving performances in Ukrainian, Kyrgyz and English, Scythian Stones will be completely accessible to American audiences.
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Virtual Souls

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Created by Virlana Tkacz with the Yara Arts Group And Artists from the Buryat National theatre

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Waterfall / Reflections

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Conceived & Directed by : Virlana Tkacz

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Yara Arts Group

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Wayward Wing

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Composer: Genji Ito, Vladilen Pantaev

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Yara Arts Group

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Yara's Forest Song

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Composer: Genji Ito

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Yara Arts Group

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