A woman looks back on her life. The water of time bathes you and carries your life into oblivion – your love, your death, your fate… What remains? Nothing but your voice… Indivisible into spiritual, secular and folk voices. Existing within you as a whole. Like everyone has one heart.
“You do work to thank your land, your family and yourself…” / Sergey Kovalevich
Many waters cannot quench love... / The Song of Songs
Natalya Polovynka is a singer, actress, teacher and art director of the Word and Voice Theatre Centre (Lviv, Ukraine). She studied at the Mykola Lysenko Lviv Conservatory and attended workshops in the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski (Potedera, Italy). Using theatre and music, she creates a unique artistic territory of song development as life, a spiritual category. Natalya utilizes and performs all genres of traditional singing: ancient sacred songs of Ukraine, traditional Ukrainian songs, psalms and classical romances. She is also a performer of contemporary and improvised music as well as the author of a unique voice work methodology. From 1988 to 2007 she was the principal actress and musical director of Lviv’s Les Kurbas Theatre. In 1996 she started collaboration with Serhiy Kovalevich, with whom she co-founded the Maisternia Pisni Artistic Research Centre in Lviv in 2003. Since 2008 she has been a solist and teacher at Dudaryk Male Choir. She collaborates with the Grotowski Institute (Wrocław, Poland), the Revutsky Choir (Kyiv, Ukraine), the University of Columbia and the University of Wales. She has won awards at international music and theatre festivals and the Shevchenko National Prize.
concept and director: Sergiy Kovalevych
sound director, actress: Natalya Polovynka
materials: sacred songs of ancient Ukraine, Ukrainian folk songs, baroque music (chants), classical romances
musical form (concert in three parts)
1. “Glorification” (sacred songs, chants)
2. “Wedding” (folk songs)
3. “Praise” (romances)
Coda: “The Ark” (“Flood” cantata)
http://www.maisternia.com.ua/en/prsn_pol.php