Video performance excerpts edited in 2011 for a contemporary original dance theatre work titled Pathways to Hopak, conceived and directed by Gordon Gordey. Libretto and choreography were undertaken by Viktor Lytvynov. Set and costume design by Maria Levytski. The dancework was created for The Ukrainian Shumka Dancers of Canada.
Burton Auditorium - York University with the assistance of the Touring Office of the Canada Council.
People are getting together for "festa" (church celebration) in and around the pavilion, a car
People are getting together for "festa" (church celebration) in and around the pavilion for the celebrations (right side) and the church kitchen (left side). A girl wears Ukrainian folk costume. Cars
Part 1: Nee - Olha Gerenychuk (??); born on December 27, 1910 in Kodnia, Zhytomyr region; Orthodox; finished a 7 year Ukrainian school in Kodnia; came to Canada with parents and 3 other siblings in 1928; Ukrainian churches in Zhytomyr in the 1920s; Kodnia-Kyiv-Moscow-Riga-England-Halifax; settled in Winnipeg; started working as a seamstress; hardships of buying a farm; after 5 years on a farm moved to Toronto, to a factory; she went to Institute Prosvita (participating at the amature theatre), Narodnyi Dim, UNO; assimilation efforts; conflicts with Ukrainian Communists before WWII; married in 1937 with Stepan Pavliuk; moving to London during WWII; British Museum Library; Dr. K; Lotman (??) and his journal against the USSR; Lord Gescal (??) and his “History of Ukraine”; Davydovych; Gescal’s tragic death; she returned to Canada in 1945; manuscript of Gescal.
Part 2: Gescal (??); interest of non-Ukrainians in the Ukrainian cause; WWII events and admiration with the USSR; she worked as a typist; Panchuk in London - Ukrainian Veterans’ Club; Hania Khryplyva (??); Kozicky (??) the Secretary; Hania Panchuk; Fr. Savchuk; Fr. Horoshko; Fr. Symchych; CUC; Davydovych; Dr. K shut down the Bureau and left for Canada; UCSA; Catholics vs Orthodox; life in London; she came back to Canada in April 1945; army life of her husband.
Part 1: Travel to Halifax at the end of WWII after 7 years of absence; she settled in Toronto; joined UNO with her husband Stepan; creating Ukrainian Veterans Association; Panchuk; Stepan helping the veterans; Pohorets’kyi (?); in 5 years, her husband with a partner bought a hotel; conflicts inside the Ukrainian community; Ukrainians coming from the WWII tried to catch up with their Canadian fellows in terms of material goods.