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Artistic Viewpoints, an informal moderated discussion featuring Virsky Artistic Director Myroslav Vantukh, is offered in Eisenhower Auditorium one hour before the performance and is free for ticket holders. Artistic Viewpoints regularly fills to capacity. Seating is available on a first-arrival basis.
Virsky Ukrainian National Dance Company
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Eisenhower Auditorium
Adult $36 University Park Student $15 18 and Younger $26
Ukraine didn’t become an independent country until 1991, but the culture of the Ukrainian people has been evolving for more than a thousand years. Virsky Ukrainian National Dance Company, founded in 1937 by ballet master Pavlo Virsky, embraces the charm, beauty, and folk dance traditions of its homeland and shares them with audiences in the four corners of the world. Clad in colorful clothing and blessed with grace, the company performs dances filled, in turn, with romance, optimism, humor, and occasional melancholy. Since 1980 Myroslav Vantukh, a choreographic ethnographer, has served as artistic director of the company his mentor created. Under Vantukh’s leadership, the company of eighty-five artists continues to create dances that enrich an already broad and deep repertoire.
Audio description, which is especially helpful to patrons with sight loss, is available for this performance at no extra charge to ticket holders.
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