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GIVING VOICE 11 - MARYANA SADOVSKA (UKRAINE) [April 2009]
INTRODUCTION TO OPEN THROAT SINGING
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ONE DAY WORKSHOP
THURSDAY 23 APRIL
For many years, Maryana Sadovska has been leading workshops focused on the so called “white voice“ (open throat) drawing from the East-European tradition. Based on her experiences with the Polish Theatre Gardzienice she developed a system of exercises enabling the discovery of the bonds between movement and singing, gesture and voice, rhythm and breath. She looks for the essence of every song and strives for a true expression, as well as stimulates imagination: She acquaints us with the rituals, social origins and basis of everyday life contained in the individual songs - e.g. calling songs,wedding songs, lullabys, ballads and healing songs.
Born in Lviv, Ukraine, singer, composer, actress, Maryana Sadovska now lives in Cologne, Germany, and works throughout Europe and the USA performing, directing workshops, participating in theatre projects, composing music.Her work in music and theatre has always been inspired by indigenous cultures.Her aspiration is to bridge the gap between ancient, traditional sounds and the contemporary. Creating her own innovative compositions and arrangements in dialogue with ancient traditions,Maryana approaches each piece with a fresh and uniquely personal vision.
She began her work with Les Kurbas Theater (Lviv, Ukraine) . There she was selected for the “Slavic Pilgrim Project” by Jerzy Grotowski in Pontedera, Italy. Later that year, she was invited to
join the Gardzienice Theatre Association where she worked for 10 years as an actor and Music Director. During that time, she began her exploration of indigenous music and cultures, with expeditions in the Ukraine, to Ireland, Egypt, Cuba, Brazil, Lapland and Afganistan. She has since organized many cultural exchanges between contemporary artists from Europe and the US with native singers from Ukraine.
In 2001, she moved to New York with a grant from Earth Foundation. There she worked as a music director with La Mama E.T.C.’s resident theater company, Yara Arts Group. In the Spring of 2006 she was a Guest Musical Director for the Art Atelier Program curated by Toni Morrison at Princeton University. In 2008 Sadovska became a Fullbright scholar.
“Sometimes a musician has such an inborn desire to communicate that her message naturally becomes universal…the responsibilities, protocol and tradition of whatever style she is working in just vanish; she replaces them with pure vitality. Such is the case with the Ukrainian singer Maryana Sadovska.”
Ben Ratliff, The New York Times
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