Harvard Summer School Instructors - Virlana Tkacz, Sen Curran, Hans Kohn, Jennifer Clarvoe (Paperback)

Chapters: Virlana Tkacz, Sen Curran, Hans Kohn, Jennifer Clarvoe. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Virlana Tkacz (b. June 23, 1952 in Newark, NJ) is the founding director of the Yara Arts Group, a resident company at the world-renown La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York. She was educated at Bennington College and Columbia University, where she earned a Master of Fine Arts in theatre directing. With Yara she created eighteen original theatre pieces based on fragments of contemporary poetry and traditional songs, chants, myth, history and legends. Although grounded in traditional material, Yara's pieces are experimental in essence, employing projections and complex musical scores to explore our relationship to time and consciousness. Ms. Tkacz has created ten original theatre pieces that were collaborations with experimental theatre companies from Eastern Europe. These pieces were performed at La MaMa in New York, in major theatres in Kiev, Kharkiv and Lviv and at international theatre festivals, as well as in village cultural centers. They included A Light from the East, Explosions, Blind Sight, Yaras Forest Song, Waterfall/Reflections, with legendary folk-singer Nina Matvienko, Kupala, Swan, Koliada: Twelve Dishes, Still the River Flows and Song Tree which Bob Holman called a luscious experience, flowing from folk to avant-garde, from the bizarre to the holy -- jampacked and juicy. In 1996 she began working with indigenous Buryat artists from Siberia. Together they have created six original Yara theatre pieces beginning with Virtual Souls. Based on traditional material, rituals and shaman chants these pieces were performed at La MaMa, in Ulan Ude at the Buryat National Theatre, and in the villages of Aga-Buryat Region, as well as at ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=23502645