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Theatre
GAZ
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Workers prepare a futuristic gas, the only source of energy for the entire industrial world. They refuse to see a looming problem. Will there be anything left to reconstruct?
Following the
Milky Way
The epic journey in search of a home of the last speakers of Old Swedish who today live in a village in Southern Ukraine.
Scythian Stones
Two young women travel from the countryside into the city, descending into the Great Below -- the modern global desert where traditional songs, skills and languages disappear.
Song Tree
Spirits of Malanka and the Goat Dance descend on a woman who has buried herself in work and science.
Virtual Souls
On the Internet someone opens a window into the past... Nature reveals its mythical secrets--swans transform into beautiful women. But can you copyright a dream?
Blind Sight
based on the life of blind poet Vasyl Yeroshenko, who traveled the world, settling in Japan 1914-21 and writing in Japanese.
Koliada on Mars
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A world music theater event celebrating Koliada, a winter ritual of the Carpathian Mountains and an 18th century Ukrainian Nativity play, as well as winter songs from around our planet
1917-2017: Tychyna, Zhadan & the Dogs
1917 there‘s great hope in Kyiv as the Russian Empire falls apart. But constant invasions lead to 12 changes in government in 3 years and society crumbles. 2017 there’s great hope…
Capt. John Smith Goes to Ukraine
.In 1607 Captain John Smith founded Jamestown, the first English settlement in America, but in 1603 he was in Eastern Europe.
Fire Water Night
When Trees Move and Women Burn.
World Music Theatre Performance on the Move
Er Toshtuk
A world music theatre piece based on Kyrgyz epic about a magical and darkly humorous journey into the Underworld and out into the Cosmos.
The Warrior's Sister
World music theatre piece based on an ancient Buryat epic song. Sister of a legendary warrior puts on his armour when he is killed.
Circle
Siberian legends, shaman chants and post-Soviet reality intermingle in a wedding in Buryatia when Gogol Bordello arrives to make sure everything goes wrong
Waterfall/Reflections
Dreams and memories of water and the women who created art throughout the ages
Explosions
documentary material from the Chornobyl nuclear accident, German expressionist drama and Ukrainian poetry
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SLAP!
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David Burliuk is slapped by a Scythian Ice Princess. The obvious result:
Futurism in Siberia, Japan and New York.
Dark Night,
Bright Stars
In 1858 the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko was set free after 10 years imprisonment. He met the great African American actor Ira Aldridge and drew his portrait.
Winter Light
World music theatre piece based on winter songs from the Carpathian Mountains an 18th century nativity show and the crisis in Ukraine today.
Midwinter Night
Sacred and Profane Rituals. World Music Theatre with Winter Song Singers from the Carpathians. Baroque Folk Nativity Opera and raucous Goat Songs
Winter Sun
Theatrical Celebration of Winter Songs from the Carpathian Mountains with an 18th century nativity show, puppets, music, ritual food and videos
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Sundown
Theatrical reflection on the life and work of the father of Japanese photography.
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Swan
Musical theatre piece based on poetry by Oleh Lysheha. Discovering the mythical in the everyday.
Obo: Our Shamanism
world music theatre piece based on shaman initiation rituals the artists witnessed in Siberia
Flight of the
White Bird
An American in Siberia today finds herself in the footsteps of a Buryat Mongolian princess. Their worlds entwine, as a Shaman, at the height of his trance, leaves his body and takes flight.
Yara's Forest Song
Exploring the shifting boundaries between wilderness and civilization, based on a classic of Ukrainian literature, "Forest Song. "
Light from the East
the diaries of Les Kurbas, an experimental theatre director in Kiev in the 1920s, modern poetry and the dreams of the Yara artists