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Concert for voice and performer, Natalya Polovynka Sun 22 June 2014, 7pm Laboratory Theatre Space Admission: 15 PLN Bookings and tickets: sekretariat@grotowski-institute.art.pl Tel. 71 34 45 320 Online tickets “You do work to thank your land, your family and yourself…” / Sergey Kovalevich “Much water cannot quench love…” / The Song of Songs A woman looks back on her life. The water of time bathes you and carries your life into oblivion – your love, your death, your fate… What remains? Nothing but your voice… Indivisible into spiritual, secular and folk voices. Existing within you as a whole. Like everyone has one heart.  Arranger and performer: Natalya Polovynka Concept and director: Sergey Kovalevich Material: sacred songs of ancient Ukraine, Ukrainian folk songs, baroque music (chants), classical romances Running time: 75 minutes Concert in 3 movements 1. “Glorification” (sacred songs, chants) 2. “Wedding” (folk songs) 3. “Praise” (romances) Coda: “The Ark” (“Flood” cantata) *** Songs of the wind and the sky [...] The wind sang these songs to me: Songs–prayers, songs of destiny, Songs-laments, songs–holidays. The wind sang me my life. [...] A girl, angel-woman, a white dove. [...] These are songs of pain, And pain is the river of time that bathes you And carries all you have into oblivion – Your life, love, death, fate [...] Time leaves nothing in its wake but [...] A voice inside you. For whom do we sing These lonesome songs That only high graves and blue sky can hear? [...] If you stand on a grave [...] Sing [...] The difference Between you and The people of the past, Between your world and theirs, Will disappear, Revealing the essence of the world [...] Sergey Kovalevich Natalya Polovynka is a singer, actress, teacher and art director of the Word and Voice Theatre Centre (Lviv, Ukraine). She studied at the Lviv Conservatory and attended workshops in the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski (Potedera, Italy). Using theatre and music, she creates a unique artistic territory of song development as life, a spiritual category. Natalya utilizes and performs all genres of traditional singing: ancient sacred songs of Ukraine, traditional Ukrainian songs, psalms and classical romances. She is also a performer of contemporary and improvised music as well as the author of a unique voice work methodology. From 1988 to 2007 she was the principal actress and musical director of Lviv’s Les Kurbas Theatre. In 1996 she started collaboration with Sergey Kovalevich, with whom she co-founded the Maisternia Pisni Artistic Research Centre in Lviv in 2003. Since 2008 she has been a solist and teacher at Dudaryk Male Choir. She collaborates with the Grotowski Institute (Wroc³aw, Poland), the Revutsky Choir (Kyiv, Ukraine), the University of Columbia and the University of Wales. She has won awards at international music and theatre festivals and the Shevchenko National Prize. Sergey Kovalevich is a theatre director, music and drama theatre methodologist, and teacher. He conducts research on the principles underlying the embodiment of tradition in modern culture and theatre. He leads training sessions and workshops related to the basic gesture (“zero ritual”) – the word and voice as the central notion of the actor’s and theatre language. He has developed a number of methods of working with dramatic text, voice and song, authored several methodology and artistic texts, and directed anthropological art documentaries. He co-founded, with Natalya Polovynka, the Maisternia Pisni Artistic Research Centre (Lviv), of which he is director and methodologist. He was a collaborator of the Grotowski Institute (2006–2011) and he conceived and led the Song of Songs International Art Resource (2006–2013). Since 2012 he has been associated with the Word and Voice Theatre Centre as a director and methodologist.  As part of WrocLove Fest |