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Video performance excerpts of Vechornytsi-Life is a Cabaret edited in 2013 featuring live performances with orchestra and on stage projected video. Six cabaret style contemporary original dance works are featured to upbeat re-envisioned folk songs in a pop style including the classical style Melodia by Ukraine composer, Mykola Skoryk. These danceworks were created for The Ukrainian Shumka Dancers of Canada.
Gordon Gordey documents his dance libretto and director’s vision in Ukrainain, including performance photographs, for the creation of a contemporary original dance theatre work titled Eve of Kupalo - a Midsummer’s Night Mystery Masque. This dancework was created for The Ukrainian Shumka Dancers of Canada. Eve of Kupalo – a Midsummer’s Night Mystery Masque premiered at the 2,700 seat Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on March 19, 2009. Since then it has toured across Canada and has toured to China, where it played 22 performances in major theatres in 14 cities carrying the Kupalo metaphor of the spirituality of renewal, ritual, and love.
First Draft Concept/Libretto was created in 2007.
Premiere Performance, Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, Edmonton: March 19, 2009.
The collection contains ephemera collected from various Ukrainian Canadian community events in Edmonton, area, and other location across Canada, publications, and art cards.
The collection consists of field materials collected by Slawa Basarab as part of her assignments for the folklore courses she took at the University of Alberta, and include collected proverbs and beliefs about folk medicine, and folk sayings relating to health.
Sans titreThe collection consists of fieldwork materials collected by Natalie Kononeko during her trips to numerous villages in Central Ukraine in 2001-2005. Interviews cover a wide range of folklore topics including ritual and belief, births, weddings, funerals, songs and stories, and more.
Sans titreThe collection consist of personal documents (birth certificates from Audtro-Hungarian Empire, marriage certificate, military ticket from inter-war Poland), immigration documents (passports with visas, ship cards) and other personal documents of Andrew and Polly Sharak. Both Polish passports have their photographs.
Sans titreThe collection of proverbs and beliefs consists of field notes by Demjan Hohol made during his fieldwork project for UKR-421 course in October-November 1977. It includes proverbs written down from respondents and their equivalents from Plaviuk and other sources.
The collection consists of verses collected in Canada from various pioneers from western Ukraine, and a collection of jokes, proverbs, New Year's verses and texts of other folk songs.
Sans titreThis project includes a collection of proverbs and sayings with sources from informants from western Ukraine.
