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NEWS: Dancing Through Translation: American and Ukrainian Choreographers Launch Yearlong Collaboration

12/31/2017

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FROM Peter Kyle:

American choreographer Peter Kyle and Ukrainian choreographer Anton Ovchinnikov have launched DANCING THROUGH TRANSLATION, a yearlong research and performance project exploring contemporary dance as a vehicle for cross-cultural exchange. The collaboration is part of a larger celebration of 25 years of bilateral relations between the United States of America and Ukraine. The project will be implemented with the support of the Public Diplomacy Small Grants Program of the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine.

DANCING THROUGH TRANSLATION builds on Kyle’s earlier choreographic investigations including his 2012 solo, 100 DAYS. It challenges the artists, who met in 2016 while Kyle was in Kiev, Ukraine on a Fulbright Specialist grant, to look with fresh eyes at the wealth of human physicality that surrounds us, and explore questions of how we process movement as language. Over the next year Ovchinnikov and Kyle will catalog, transcribe, and learn borrowed movements from everyday people they encounter in their daily travels on opposite sides of the planet.

Drawing on the material they collect, Ovchinnikov and Kyle will build a new production with a team of four dancers (two from the U.S. and two from Ukraine), an American composer, Ukrainian costume and lighting designers, and a Ukrainian tour manager. Kyle and Ovchinnikov met for project planning in person this fall in New York City, and continue to do so in regular videoconferences. In March 2018 Kyle travels to Kiev to work with the Ukrainian team. The final phase of the collaboration takes place in summer 2018 when Kyle and U.S. dancers travel to Ukraine for an intensive rehearsal and performance period with the other artists. The completed project tours to multiple cities across Ukraine including: Kiev, Kherson, Kharkiv, Lviv and Dnipro.

An important outreach component of the project expands on Kyle’s 2016 Fulbright project in Kiev and seeks to engage college and university students in several dance departments in the U.S. and Ukraine. Student work groups in both countries will be invited to conduct their own movement observations, write detailed transcriptions of the material they observe, and share these with their international peers to create their own choreographic translations inspired by one another’s writings. The students will meet to share their creative work via videoconference, establishing a foundation for a “culture-bridge” between populations.
By investigating the varied communicative processes involved in dancing the artists hope to refine their understanding of the art form, and provoke new research in dance across cultures. They hope the project will inspire new international collaborations, reinforce and deepen the role of dance in cultural diplomacy, strengthen fledgling ties between the contemporary dance communities of Ukraine and the United States, and establish a basis for far-reaching international artistic exchange.

For more information:  Peter Kyle, Artistic Director, Peter Kyle Dance
                              347.218.1820, info@peterkyledance.org, www.peterkyledance.org     
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    I am a performer, historian, consultant and dance writer. I am a Empire State College's online program Center for Distance Learning.  I am also a former faculty member at The Ailey School and the Alvin Ailey/Fordham University dance major program, Hunter College, Sarah Lawrence College (Guest), Kean University and The Joffrey Ballet School's Jazz and Contemporary Trainee Program.  I write on dance for The Amsterdam News, Dance Magazine and various publications.  Click below to read more about me at my home page - "About Me."

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