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Pavlo Virsky Ukrainian National Folk Dance Ensemble
Pavlo Virsky Ukrainian National Folk Dance Ensemble (; also referred to simply as Virsky) is a Ukrainian dance company based out of Ukraine, notable for its innovative approach to the art form. The ensemble was founded in 1937 by Pavlo Virsky and Mykola Bolotov, and guided by Virsky until his death in 1975. During World War II, Virsky performed for the soldiers at the front. Virsky's aim is to create dances that embrace historical Ukrainian dance traditions as well as dances that are innovative and forward-moving. In 1980, the company's artistic direction was overtaken by Myroslav Vantukh, who had been a disciple of Virsky. Repertoire Choreography by Pavlo Virsky *''My Z Ukrainy'' () *''Povzunets'' (), a Cossack comedy dance *''Oi, Pid Vishneiu'' () *''Zaporozhtsi'', National Ukrainian dance of Cossacks *''Vyshyvalnytsi'' () *''Moriaky'' () *''Hopak'' Choreography by Myroslav Vantukh *''Carpathians'' *''Tambourine Dance'' *''The Years of Youth'' *''In Peace and Harmony' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donetsk
Donetsk ( , ; ; ), formerly known as Aleksandrovka, Yuzivka (or Hughesovka), Stalin, and Stalino, is an industrial city in eastern Ukraine located on the Kalmius River in Donetsk Oblast, which is currently occupied by Russia as the capital of the Donetsk People's Republic. The population was estimated at in the city core, with over 2 million in the metropolitan area (2011). According to the 2001 census, Donetsk was the fifth-largest city in Ukraine. Administratively, Donetsk has been the centre of Donetsk Oblast, while historically, it is the unofficial capital and largest city of the larger economic and cultural Donets Basin (''Donbas'') region. Donetsk is adjacent to another major city, Makiivka, and along with other surrounding cities forms a major urban sprawl and conurbation in the region. Donetsk has been a major economic, industrial and scientific centre of Ukraine with a high concentration of heavy industries and a skilled workforce. The density of heavy indus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethnic Russian Music
Russian folk music specifically deals with the folk music traditions of the ethnic Russian people. Russian folk music is used as the basic foundation for the creation of all Russian professional music. Ethnic styles in the modern era The performance and promulgation of ethnic music in Russia has a long tradition. Initially it was intertwined with various forms of art music, however, in the late 19th century it began to take on a life of its own with the rise in popularity of folkloric ensembles, such as the folk choir movement led by Mitrofan Pyatnitsky and the Russian folk instrument movement pioneered by Vasily Andreyev. In Soviet Russia, folk music was categorized as being democratic (of the people) or proletarian (of the working class) as opposed to art music, which was often regarded as being bourgeois. After the revolution, along with proletarian "mass music" (music for the proletarian masses) it received significant support from the state. In post-World War II Russia, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myroslav Vantukh
Myroslav () is a masculine given name. It may refer to: *Myroslav Bundash (born 1976), Ukrainian footballer *Myroslav Dumanskyi (1929–1996), retired Soviet football player and Ukrainian coach *Myroslav Dykun (born 1982), Ukrainian born British amateur wrestler *Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky (1914–2000), Major Archbishop of Lviv and head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church *Myroslav Marynovych (born 1949), vice-rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv *Myroslav Skoryk (1938–2020), famous Ukrainian composer of diverse and impressive compositions *Myroslav Slavov (born 1990), Ukrainian football forward *Myroslaw Stechishin (1883–1947), socialist activist and Ukrainian-Canadian public figure *Myroslav Stupar Myroslav Ivanovych Stupar (; ; born August 27, 1941) is a Ukrainian retired footballer and football referee. Career As a player, he was a goalkeeper and played for Spartak Stanislav / Ivano-Frankivsk, FC Volyn Lutsk, Dinamo Khmelnytskyi, also ... (born 1941) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrainian Dance
''Ukrainian dance'' (, translit. ''Ukrainskyi tanets'') mostly refers to the traditional folk dances of the Ukrainians as an ethnic group, but may also refer to dances originating from the multiple other ethnic groups within Ukraine. A ''household folk dance'' is a folk dance that is done in a particular territory and is traditionally done under common circumstances like weddings or festivals, with characteristic movements, rhythms, costumes, etc. A ''folk-stage dance'', staged by a choreographer in a professional or amateur collective for performance on stage, may be Ukrainian, but is no longer an everyday folk dance. The main dance genres of Ukrainians' folk dance are ''round dance'', as one of the oldest types of folk dance art, very typical to all Slavic dances, the performance of which is associated with calendar rites, and ''everyday dance'', which includes '' metelitsa'', '' hopak'', '' kozachok'', '' hutsulka'', '' kolomyika'', ''square dance'', and ''polka''. Pre-mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavlo Virsky
Pavlo Pavlovych Virsky (; 2 February 1905 – 5 July 1975) was a Soviet and Ukrainian dancer, ballet master, choreographer, and founder of the Pavlo Virsky Ukrainian National Folk Dance Ensemble, whose work in Ukrainian dance was groundbreaking and influenced generations of dancers. Early days Pavlo Virsky was born on February 25, 1905, in Odesa, Russian Empire. After graduating from the Odesa Music and Drama School in 1927, he continued his studies in Moscow, at the Theater Tekhnikum, from 1927 to 1928. Beginning in 1925, state theaters began to be organized throughout the Ukrainian SSR, allowing for gainful employment for artists, and upon his return to Odesa in 1928, Virsky joined the Odesa Opera and Ballet Theatre as a dancer and choreographer. It was at this theater that he collaborated with Mykola Bolotov in their first joint production: Gliere's ''The Red Poppy''. Virsky left Odesa in 1931, and worked as a ballet master at various theatres, including those in Kharkiv, D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cossacks
The Cossacks are a predominantly East Slavic languages, East Slavic Eastern Christian people originating in the Pontic–Caspian steppe of eastern Ukraine and southern Russia. Cossacks played an important role in defending the southern borders of Ukraine and Russia, Cossack raids, countering the Crimean-Nogai slave raids in Eastern Europe, Crimean-Nogai raids, alongside economically developing steppes, steppe regions north of the Black Sea and around the Azov Sea. Historically, they were a semi-nomadic and semi-militarized people, who, while under the nominal suzerainty of various Eastern European states at the time, were allowed a great degree of self-governance in exchange for military service. Although numerous linguistic and religious groups came together to form the Cossacks, most of them coalesced and became East Slavic languages, East Slavic–speaking Eastern Orthodox Church, Orthodox Christians. The rulers of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russian Empire en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romani People
{{Infobox ethnic group , group = Romani people , image = , image_caption = , flag = Roma flag.svg , flag_caption = Romani flag created in 1933 and accepted at the 1971 World Romani Congress , pop = 2–12 million , region2 = United States , pop2 = 1 million estimated with Romani ancestry{{efn, 5,400 per 2000 United States census, 2000 census. , ref2 = {{cite news , first=Kayla , last=Webley , url=http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2025316,00.html , title=Hounded in Europe, Roma in the U.S. Keep a Low Profile , agency=Time , date=13 October 2010 , access-date=3 October 2015 , quote=Today, estimates put the number of Roma in the U.S. at about one million. , region3 = Brazil , pop3 = 800,000 (0.4%) , ref3 = , region4 = Spain , pop4 = 750,000–1.5 million (1.5–3.7%) , ref4 = {{cite web , url ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Folk Dance Performance Groups
This is a list of notable folk dance performance groups, listed by country of origin. Bulgaria *Pirin Folk Ensemble Canada * Chai Folk Ensemble * Cheremosh Ukrainian Dance Company China * China National Ethnic Song and Dance Ensemble Croatia *National Folk Dance Ensemble of Croatia LADO Macedonia *Tanec Estonia * University of Tartu Folk Art Ensemble Honduras * Ballet Folklórico de Honduras Oro Lenca Mexico * Ballet Folklorico Aztlan *Ballet Folklorico de Mexico Philippines * Bayanihan Philippine National Folk Dance Company * Ramon Obusan Folkloric Group Poland *Mazowsze *Śląsk Song and Dance Ensemble Turkey *Fire of Anatolia Ukraine * P. Virsky Ukrainian National Folk Dance Ensemble United States *American Indian Dance Theatre * Ballet Folklorico Paso Del Norte * Brigham Young University Folk Dance Ensemble *Duquesne University Tamburitzans The Tamburitzans (formerly the Duquesne University Tamburitzans) are the longest-running multicultural song and dance compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Folk Dance Companies
Folk or Folks may refer to: Sociology *Nation *People * Folklore ** Folk art ** Folk dance ** Folk hero ** Folk horror ** Folk music *** Folk metal *** Folk punk *** Folk rock ** Folk religion * Folk taxonomy Arts, entertainment, and media * Folk Plus or Folk +, an Albanian folk music channel * Folks (band), a Japanese band * ''Folks!'', a 1992 American film People with the name * Bill Folk (born 1927), Canadian ice hockey player * Chad Folk (born 1972), Canadian football player * Elizabeth Folk (c. 16th century), British martyr; one of the Colchester Martyrs * Eugene R. Folk (1924–2003), American ophthalmologist * Joseph W. Folk (1869–1923), American lawyer, reformer, and politician * Kevin Folk (born 1980), Canadian curler * Nick Folk (born 1984), American football player * Rick Folk (born 1950), Canadian curler * Robert Folk (born 1949), American film composer * Robert L. Folk (1925–2018), American geologist and sedimentary petrologist Other uses * Folk classificat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dance In Ukraine
''Ukrainian dance'' (, Romanization of Ukrainian, translit. ''Ukrainskyi tanets'') mostly refers to the traditional folk dances of the Ukrainians as an ethnic group, but may also refer to dances originating from the multiple other ethnic groups within Ukraine. A ''household folk dance'' is a folk dance that is done in a particular territory and is traditionally done under common circumstances like weddings or festivals, with characteristic movements, rhythms, costumes, etc. A ''folk-stage dance'', staged by a choreographer in a professional or amateur collective for performance on stage, may be Ukrainian, but is no longer an everyday folk dance. The main dance genres of Ukrainians' folk dance are ''round dance'', as one of the oldest types of folk dance art, very typical to all Slavic dances, the performance of which is associated with calendar rites, and ''everyday dance'', which includes ''metelitsa'', ''hopak'', ''kozachok'', ''hutsulka'', ''kolomyika'', ''square dance'', an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
