Ukrainian avant-garde symposium, April 26 in New York

SYMPOSIUM

"Experiment, Expression, and the International Scene: The Ukrainian
Avant-Garde Stage in the 1910s and 1920s"

 

Sunday, April 26, 2015 at 2:00 p.m.

The Ukrainian Museum

222 East 6th St.

New York, NY 10003

212-228-0110

www.ukrainianmuseum.org <http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org> 

Admission (includes reception and gallery access) is $15; $10 for members
and seniors; $5 for students

Tickets:
http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/shop/display.php?&psku=tkt150426&mode=sp

 



 

Moderator

Myroslava Mudrak, Professor Emerita, The Ohio State University, Department
of History of Art. Guest co-curator of The Ukrainian Museum's current
exhibition Staging the Ukrainian Avant-Garde of the 1910s and 1920s. 

 

"Hello from Radiowave 477!: The Berezil Theater as Institution in Soviet
Kharkiv"

Mayhill Fowler is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at
Stetson University. Her teaching and research focus on the cultural history
of Ukraine, Russia, and Eastern Europe. A former professional actress with
an MFA, Fowler is now writing a book about the making of Soviet Ukrainian
culture in the interwar period. Fowler has written on the early Ukrainian
film industry, Yiddish theater in Soviet Ukraine, and the theatrical world
of Russian Imperial Kyiv.

 

"An Amazon of the Avant-Garde: Bronislava Nijinska in Kyiv"

Lynn Garafola is a professor of dance at Barnard College, Columbia
University. She is an expert on Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and
twentieth-century dance more broadly, and has written extensively on both,
in addition to curating exhibitions on the Ballets Russes, the New York City
Ballet, the history of Italian dance, and Jerome Robbins. Her current
project, supported by fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the New
York Public Library's Cullman Center, is a book about the celebrated
choreographer Bronislava Nijinska.

 

"Before the World Wide Web: Theater Arts at International Exhibitions"

Irena Makaryk is a professor in both the English and theater departments at
the University of Ottawa. Her research interests include Shakespeare and
cross-cultural interpretation; she also looks at the role theater plays in
times of great social distress. Her interests come together in her study of
the avant-garde theater in Ukraine in the early twentieth century. A
renowned Les Kurbas scholar, Makaryk is the author of several books on the
Ukrainian interpretation of Shakespeare and co-editor with Virlana Tkacz of
an anthology on Ukrainian modernist theater. Makaryk is currently the
project coordinator for Shakespeare 400, a celebration of the anniversary of
the bard's birthday.

 

"Les Kurbas: Explosive Presence"

Virlana Tkacz is the artistic director of Yara Arts Group, a resident
company of the world-renowned La MaMa Experimental Theater in New York.
Since 1990 she has created over thirty original productions at La MaMa based
on extensive research in Ukraine, Siberia, and Asia. She is a recipient of
the National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Translations Fellowship for her
translations of Serhiy Zhadan. Additionally, she has published seminal
studies on Les Kurbas in English and, with Irena Makaryk, co-edited
"Modernism in Kyiv: Jubilant Experimentation" (University of Toronto Press,
2008).

 

More information about the exhibition:

http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/ex_150207avantgarde.html

 

Catalogue: Staging the Ukrainian Avant-Garde of the 1910s and 1920s

http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/shop/display.php?
<http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/shop/display.php?&psku=68-6821&mode=sp>
&psku=68-6821&mode=sp

 

 

Hanya Krill

[email protected]

Programs and Marketing

The Ukrainian Museum

222 East 6th Street

New York, NY 10003

212-228-0110 x304

http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org

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