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Mariana Sadovska
12+ albums
11folkUkrainianexperimentaljazz
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Born in Lviv, Ukraine, Mariana Sadovska now lives in Cologne, Germany, and works throughout Europe and the USA. Her work in music and theater has always been inspired by the indigenous cultures and sounds from around the world. Her aspirations are to find a way to bridge the gap between ancient, traditional sounds with the contemporary. She began her work in 1991 with Les Kurbas Theater (Lviv, Ukraine) in Anatolyi Vasiliev’s Festivals in St. Petersburg and Moscow. Invitation to join Theater Gardzienice where she worked for 10 years (actor and music director). During that time, she began her exploration of indigenous music and cultures, with expeditions in the Ukraine, Ireland, Egypt, Cuba and Brazil. She has since organized many cultural exchanges between contemporary artists from Europe and the U.S. with the native singers of Ukraine. In 2001, she moved to NYC (Stipend by Earth Foundation). Work as a music director with La Mama E.T.C.’s resident theater company, Yara Arts Group. First solo performances as well as collaborations with such renowned artists as Michael Alpert, Anthony Coleman, Frank London, Victoria Hanna. In 2002, first solo CD ”Songs I learned in Ukraine” (Global Village). Since then, regular invitations, solo concerts, workshops, theatrical collaborations at: Public Theatre (NYC), Brooklyn Academy of Music, Symphony Space (NYC), Princeton and N.Y. University, San Francisco World Music Festival. In 2004/2005 new stay in the USA, second CD “Borderland” (evoe:p
