Mariana Sadovska (born 1972,
Lviv
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,
Ukraine
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) is a Ukrainian actress, singer, musician, recording artist, and composer, resident in
Cologne
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.
Biography
Sadovska began her work with
Les Kurbas Theater (Lviv, Ukraine) at Anatole Vasiliev's Festivals in
St. Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
and Moscow. There, she was tapped for the Slavic Pilgrim Project by
Jerzy Grotowski
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He was born in Rzesz ...
in
Pontedera
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, Italy. Later that year, she was invited to join Theater
Gardzienice
Centre for Theatre Practices "Gardzienice" was founded in 1977 by Włodzimierz Staniewski, and formally registered in 1978. The name comes from the village where the theatre is located. The group gained international critical acclaim, and is clas ...
where she worked for 10 years as an actor and music director. During her tenure with Gardzienice, she conducted ethnomusicological expeditions to Ukraine, Ireland, Egypt, Cuba and Brazil. She has since organized many cultural exchanges between contemporary artists from Europe and the United States with the traditional singers of Ukraine.
In 2001, she moved to New York with a grant from the
Earth Foundation. There she worked as a music director at
La Mama
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, with E.T.C.'s resident theater company, Yara Arts Group.
During her residence in New York City, she began working on her solo performances as well as collaborations with such artists as
Julian Kytasty
Julian Kytasty ( uk, Юліян Китастий) is an American composer, singer, kobzar, bandurist, flautist, and conductor of Ukrainian descent. He was born January 23, 1958, in Detroit, Michigan, in a family of refugees.
Biography
His firs ...
,
Michael Alpert
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He has ...
(of
Brave Old World
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Members hail from the US and Germany. ''The Washington Post'' called Brave Old World "the revival's first supergroup. Every player is a virtuoso.”
In 1992, the group ...
),
Anthony Coleman
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,
Frank London
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Early life
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,
Victoria Hanna
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In 2001, Global Village produced her first solo CD, ''Songs I learned in Ukraine''. In 2005, Sadovska and
EVOE group produced her second solo CD ''Borderland''. Since then she had appearances at the
Knitting Factory
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The Knitting Factory gave its audience poetry readings, perform ...
,
Joe's Pub
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,
BAM,
Macor
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,
Galapagos and
Exit Art
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.
She teaches workshops on vocal techniques which she has collected through her travels at the Grotowski Center (Poland), Giving Voice Festival (UK), International Workshop Festival (Israel), The Royal Shakespeare Co. (London), as well as many academic institutions, including Harvard, Swarthmore, SUNY Buffalo, NYU and UC Santa Barbara.
In July 2005, she taught workshops at the
University of Kabul
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(Afghanistan). In 2006 she was a guest musical director for the Art Atelier Program curated by
Toni Morrison
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at
Princeton University
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. In 2008 Sadovska became a
Fulbright scholar
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.
Sadovska was one of the musicians from Ukraine in Germany when
Russia invaded the country in 2022. She sang at a concert "Songs of Wounding" with
Ganna Gryniva and others in support of Ukraine on 17 March.
Family
Her father is Ukrainian singer, songwriter, and translator
Viktor Morozov
Victor Morozov ( uk, Віктор Морозов) (born June 15, 1950) is one of Ukraine's most popular singer-songwriters.
Musical career
Victor Morozov was born on June 15, 1950, in Kremenets, a city in western Ukraine). He began his music ...
. She is married to the German performance artist
Andre Erlen.
Discography
* ''Vesna'' (Flowfish Records 2015)
* ''Vesna'' (Wizmar Records 2010)
* ''Borderland'' (Wizmar Records 2005)
* ''Gardzienice's Metamorfozy'' (Altmaster, Poland, 2000)
* ''Songs I Learned in Ukraine'' (Global Village Music, US, June 2001)
* ''Song Tree'', 2001 in collaboration with Radio Lublin (Poland), Yara Arts Group (US) (UNESCO-produced)
References
External links
Official website
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1972 births
Living people
Ukrainian emigrants to Germany
Ukrainian composers
Ethnomusicologists
Musicians from Lviv
Date of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Ukrainian women singers
Ukrainian women anthropologists
Musicians from Cologne