Gordon Gordey documents his dance concepts and libretto, including performance photographs, for the creation of the original dance theatre work Girl in the Red Dress TANGO. Created for the Ukrainian Shumka Dancers of Canada.
First Draft Concept/Libretto was created in 2006.
Premiere Performance, Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, Edmonton: November 10, 2007.
Video performance excerpts from a 2008 live performance of Girl in the Red Dress TANGO. Created for the Ukrainian Shumka Dancers of Canada to an original music score by Andriy Shoost, Kyiv, Ukraine. Girl in the Red Dress TANGO features dancers Jayleen Gordey and Leo Sato with dancers from the Ukrainian Shumka Dancers of Canada.
Video performance excerpts for a contemporary original dance theatre work titled Shumka Remembers, conceived and directed by Gordon Gordey. Video excerpt contains commentary from Gordon Gordey at the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village, Alberta, Canada. This dancework was created for The Ukrainian Shumka Dancers of Canada. Shumka Remembers is a contemporary Ukrainian Canadian narrative folk dance theatre work with video exploring the unjust internment of Ukrainian Canadians as “enemy aliens” in Canada during WWI. These “enemy aliens” were subjected to having to carry registration identity papers, often pay monthly registration fees, and were under constant surveillance. Of the 80,000 who were registered under the authority of the Act, 8,579 were deemed: “enemy aliens”. The majority of “enemy aliens” were Ukrainians and were arrested and interned in 26 makeshift encampments located mostly in Canada’s frontier hinterlands. They were forced into hard labour clearing land for roads, building bridges, and building the railway.
Director's comment on the Sumka Remembers Dance - Ukrainian Canadian internment
Anna-Marie discusses Vinkopletennia (wreath weaving ritual) songs collected around Saskatoon in this project.
A collection of proverbs from the interview with Myroslav Kryshchuk taken in Edmonton 1977.
The collection includes Yarema Kowalchuk's final essay for the course UKR-699.
UntitledThe collection consists of fieldwork materials and essays collected by Demjan Hohol for folklore courses.
UntitledA collection of Ukrainian provers collected in Alberta for the UKR-421 course and their explanations. The sources include following interviewees: Dmytro Petriw (Roman's father), Bohdan Medwidsky, prof. Zujewsky, pani Prits', pani Ianyshevs'ka, prof. Carlton, Zenon Paranych (Roman's grandfather), maestro Kolesnyk, pani Husak, pan Vasyliv.
A collection of texts including spring songs (haivky), kolomyiky, religious songs, love songs, wedding songs, Easter songs, harvest songs, as well as descriptions of wedding customs and rituals collected from Alberta residents.
UntitledIncludes wedding songs and customs, harvest songs, spring songs (hahilky), love songs, humorous songs, Cossack songs, carols, Malanka songs, kolomyiky, and proverbs collected by Irene Scharabun for the UKR-421 course at the University of Alberta.
This project contains texts of wedding and other traditional songs by John Ewasiuk who has sung at weddings for over 50 years.