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| • | Description: |
Organiser:
International public organisation "Association New Music", the Ukrainian section of the ISCM, President Karmella Tsepkolenko
Financial support:
International Renaissance Foundation (Odessa Branch) - Cultural Link programme
Participating Foundations:
Soros Foundation - Kyrghyzstan
Soros Foundation - Moldova
Open Society Institute - Mongolia
Open Society Institute - Moscow (Russia)
Open Society Institute - Novosibirsk (Russia)
Open Society Institute - Samara (Russia)
Open Society Institute - Slovenia
The festival "Art of Improvisation in the Contemporary World" is a holiday of all kinds of contemporary improvisational art including theatre, dance, plastic art, music and all types of their common action. The festival has the objective to revive in Ukraine this unique form of creative self-expression that is extremely important for creative self accomplishment of the artist. The festival's goal is defining possible ways and searching for perspectives of the development and linking of different improvisational forms in Ukraine and other East European countries. During festival days the observers will have the opportunity to enjoy performances, participate into spontaneous improvisation. All people may participate in creative fantasy master-classes where the artists will show examples of their spontaneous art.
This project presents 6-days festival of improvisational kinds of art: performing, dancing, musical (jazz, folk jazz). The entrance to festival events is free of charge.
Among the main advantages of the festival there are: the high professional level of participants, creative environment for communication and exchange of experience, opportunity for settling new contacts.
It is also possible to include the attraction of a professional photographer from Ljubljana and sociologist dealing with the problems of the development of improvisation in the contemporary world in the list of festival achievements. The pictures of the festival were placed in the magazine "Mladina" which is eminent in Slovenia and other countries. This promote popularisation of Ukrainian culture at the International level.
The festival was evaluated as successful and pretended to further development and broadening. Participants expressed wish to take part in such a project again.
Many participants supposed that the festival should be scaled up. Taking into consideration this opinion a conclusion of the necessity to hold separate festivals of musical and plastic improvisational forms was made.
| • | Programme: |
November, 26 (Friday) | Arrival of the festival participants
November, 27 (Saturday)
17.00 Game 1 | Red Dress
group Slepye (The Blind), Moscow
Performed by: Anna Kuznetsova, Alexander Margolin
18.00 Game 2 | Music Improvisations
Roman Stoljar piano, recorder (Novosibirsk)
Program:
Roman Stoljar Suite For A Moment for piano solo | Meditation for recorder and tape | CREDO concerto for soloist-improviser and tape
19.00 Game 3 | The Game of Strings
String Quartet The Harmonies of the World, Odessa
Programme: Jazz compositions for a string quartet C.Porter, E.Garner, A.Joplin, X.Henderson, G.Gershvin, etc.
Performed by: Natalia Lytvynova violin, Leonid Piskun violin, Iya Komarova viola, Serhij Scholtz cello
20.00 Jam Session 1
November, 28 (Sunday)
16.00 Fantasy Workshop 1 | Dance Improvisation
A. Kuznetsova, A. Margolin
17.00 Game 4 | Word and Act
League Level 14, Odessa
idea: Ute Kilter, ̳la Bàskayeva
v³dåî: Viktor Malyarenko
costumes: Vanya Ren'
sound-design: Êîstiantyn Penchkovskiy
performed by: Ute Kilter, Artyom Golubev, Vanya Ren', Polina Fadeeva, Valer³a V³nogradova
18.00 Game 5 | Jazz Improvisations
Yury Kuznetsov piano, percussion (Odessa)
19.00 Game 6 | Jazz Performance
Kurmangazy Azykbayev saxophone, Kyrghyz folk instruments (Bishkek)
Programme:
Ê.Azykbayev Chochutma
Ê.Azykbayev The Parad of National Instruments (chopo-choor, sybyzgy, chogono-choor, ooz komuz, zhygych komuz, nay, kuurnay, yshkyryk)
Ê.Azykbayev Chymchyck (Starling) - saxophone solo improvisation
20.00 Jam Session 2
November, 29 (Monday)
15.00 Fantasy Workshop 2
Miha Zadnikar, Ljubljana
Lecture: "Improvisation as a radical political act versus improvisation as a way (art) of life"
16.00 Fantasy Workshop 3 | Music Improvisation
Roman Stoljar
17.00 Game 7 | The Portrait with and without Lady
Duo Cadence, Odessa: Olena Yergieva violin, Ivan Yergiev accordion
Programme:
Liudmila Samodaieva Three Revelations
Vadim Larchikov Ave Maris Stella
Raoul de Smet Nocturne No.2
Violeta Dinescu Lun Yu
Yonas Tamulionis Per musica and astra
Karmella Tsepkolenko Far From the Crowd for accordion solo
19.00 Game 8 | A man is a box
Chamber ballet Arbore, Chisinau
music: Ulian Gogu, producer: Valentina Vareneva
performed by: Denis Tutunaru, Tatiana Erhan, Tatiana Bakaru, Lidia Kriange, Marina Vinogradova, Marina Zaitseva, Svetlana Zavaruhina
20.00 Jam Session 3
November, 30 (Tuesday)
14.00 Fantasy Workshop 4 | Actor's Improvisations
Davor Janjic, Ljubljana
15.00 Game 9 Dances ³n Labyr³nth. Music performance
Duo Violoncellissimo, Odessa: Olga Veselina cello, Vadim Larchikov cello, viola da gamba
and Igor Beliy clarinet, tenor-saxophone
³dea, v³deo: Vadim Larchikov
Program:
Jo Sporck Labyrinth
Liudmila Samodaieva Forgotten Dances ², II
John H³ngeston Fantasy ³n d
Violeta Dinescu Improvisation
Roman Haubenstock-Ramati Multiple I
16.00 Game 10
Mongolian traditional improvisations:
Long song | Piece for morin khuur | Yan taivan ogloo, Mongolian traditional song | Khuumii song | Long song | Ode to Altai Mountains | Ode to Manduul Khaan
Traditional music ensemble Ulaan Baatar
Performed by: Tsogtsaikhan Sosorburam long song singer, Sarantuya Batchuluun long song singer, Sandagjav Erdene-Ochir khuumii singer, Altantug Khaltar morin khuur
17.00 Jam Session 4
December, 1 (Wednesday) | Departure
| • | Participants: |
Kurmangazy Azykbayev jazz-performer (Bishkek, Kyrghyzstan)
Igor Beliy clarinettist, saxophonist (Odessa, Ukraine)
Miha Fras photographer (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Ulian Gogu composer (Chisinau, Moldova)
Olexander Golovin (Bishkek, Kyrghyzstan)
Vitaliy Jelobkov performer (Bishkek, Kyrghyzstan)
Davor Janjic stage & film actor (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Ute Kilter dancer, art-critik (Odessa, Ukraine)
Yury Kusnetsov pianist (Odessa, Ukraine)
Yury Kulbatov manager (Samara, Russia)
Vadim Larchikov composer, cellist (Odessa, Ukraine)
Victor Maliarenko videoperformer (Odessa, Ukraine)
Olga Ostrovskaya pianist (Samara, Russia)
Konstantin Penchkovsky soundperformer (Odessa, Ukraine)
Ludmila Samodaieva composer, pianist (Odessa, Ukraine)
Roman Stolyar composer, pianist (Novosibirsk, Russia)
Karmella Tsepkolenko composer (Odessa, Ukraine)
Valentina Vareneva produñer (Chisinau, Moldova)
Ludmila Volkova cellist (Samara, Russia)
Miha Zadnikar musicologist, sociologist (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Arbore Chamber ballet (Chisinau, Moldova):
Denis Tutunaru
Tatiana Erhan
Tatiana Bakaru
Lidia Kriange
Marina Vinogradova
Marina Zaitseva
Svetlana Zavaruhina
Valentina Vareneva
Duo Cadence (Odessa, Ukraine):
Olena Yergiyeva violin
Ivan Yergiyev accordion
League Level 14 (Odessa, Ukraine):
Ute Kilter
Viktor Maliarenko
̳la Bàskayeva
Artyom Golubev
Vanya Ren'
Polina Fadeeva
Valer³a V³nogradova
Group Slepye (The Blind) (Moscow, Russia):
Anna Kuznetsova dancer
Alexander Margolin dancer
String Quartet The Harmonies of the World (Odessa, Ukraine):
Natalia Lytvynova violin
Leonid Piskun violin
Iya Komarova viola
Sergey Scholtz cello
Duo Violoncellissimo (Odessa, Ukraine)
Olga Veselina cello
Vadim Larchikov cello, viola da gamba
Traditional music ensemble (Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia):
Tsogtsaikhan Sosorburam long song singer
Sarantuya Batchuluun long song singer
Altantug Khaltar morin khuur
Sandagjav Erdene-Ochir khuumii