"Mourning Mavka" by Nadine Sures

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Nadine Sures, "Mourning Mavka," interdisciplinary performance art project.

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Mourning Mavka is an interdisciplinary performance art project created and performed by Saskatchewan artist Nadine Sures that laces together video installation, live music, and physical theatre.

The production highlights the original music and live performance of Lviv bandura player and composer Anastasiya Voytyuk.

Touching on collective memories of marriage, death, urban life, and ritual, the performance suggests a lineage towards the ancient traditions of the Ukraine and Carpathian Mountains region. Inspired in part by traditional Ukrainian folk ballads, in addition to the architecture of Lviv, a UNESCO world heritage site, the interplay of movement, light and sound, that takes place between the video, live body and bandura music, traces a physical narrative throughout the performance that touches on marriage and religious traditions in relationship to the body and to contemporary society.

Mourning Mavka was created in the summer of 2012 as a result of a one-month residency at the Museum of Ideas in Lviv, Ukraine, and was premiered internationally at T.A.M., the Lviv Biennale of Contemporary Art. The Canadian Premiere of Mourning Mavka is showing at the MacKenzie Art Gallery Shumiatcher Theatre on December 6th and 7th at 8PM.

Dec. 6 and 7, 8:00PM

$8 adults, $5 students

https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=M7prh4KUBS0