One with the highlights of the weekend festival was the dynamic functionality of Maryana Sadovska. Ukrainianborn More information
performed her collection of seldom heard Ukrainian folk songs which she
sings towards the music of an unusual Indian liralike instrument. Her
voice includes a potent earthy quality that will be light and playful at
instances. Hers is definitely an nearly mystical potential to transport
the audience to yet another world just together with the power of her
voice a globe of girls working in the wheat fields, heads covered in
kerchiefs, wearing long billowy skirts and peasant blouses.
Julian Kytasty, master bandurist, played a number of songs inspired by the blind minstrels, "Kobzari". Eugene suite
("Gogol Bordello" band) read many of his personal humorous brief
stories and poems inspired by Gogol. The walls had been covered with
photographs, paintings, sculpture all by modern artists influenced by
Gogol. An interpretive dance north face gilet mens
performed by Katja Kolcio along with the Kolo Dancers. The
functionality went on constantly having a backdrop of black and white
photography and an exquisite Ukrainian "rushnyk".
Within a darkened "chapel" upstairs, one could hear the sounds of
chanting and praying. The eerie candlelit atmosphere on the space was
accented by a "crucifix" that turned out to be a leather jacket together
with the arms outstretched, and "icon" paintings of women with bared
breasts and their faces "x'd" out. A "north face hoodie",
a "Hasidic Jew" and a single other performer wrapped in white bandages
alternatively staged "prayer" scenes in the altars. Sacrilegious?
Perhaps. But Gogol was, immediately after all, known for his "evil" art.
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