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Vechornytsi (Life is a cabaret)
Vechornytsi (Life is a cabaret)
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Part of Gordon Gordey, director and dancemaker: Creating original Ukrainian dance in Canada

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.
Kupalo
CA BMUFA 0050-6 · Series
Part of Gordon Gordey, director and dancemaker: Creating original Ukrainian dance in 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.