UKRAINIAN DAY at Giants Stadium: Performing Arts

PERFORMING ARTS PROGRAM

Note: You may want to bring folding lawn chairs with you for the Performing Arts program as onsite seating is limited.

Click HERE for printable listing of Performances

The PERFORMING ARTS COMMITTEE has assembled an exciting program featuring Ukrainian Dance Ensembles, Chorale Groups, Singers & Musical Bands. We expect that all will enjoy this entertaining program featuring traditional and contemporary Ukrainian artists.

Many of the artists who will be appearing are presented on this page, some with write-ups and hyperlinks to their own websites. All in all, we are trying to create a memorable celebration for our community, our hromada... Hoping and expecting to make this a grand experience for all concerned.

Oxana Rakowsky, Chair

Performing Arts Committee

SYZOKRYLI UKRAINIAN DANCE TROUPE

Will be performing on the Grandstand Stage

and in the Stadium

UKRAINIAN DAY AT GIANTS STADIUM

YOUNG PERFORMERS PROGRAM

1. “Barvinok” – Astoria, NY– Dance

2. Maria Kavatsyuk - Berkeley Heights, NJ

3. School of Ballroom Dancing – Dance – NYC

4. Sisters Pavlishyn - Astoria, NY – Vocal Duet

5. “Kashtany” - Passaic, NJ – Dance – “Volynianka”

6. “Kashtany” - Passaic, NJ – Dance – “Hopachok”

7. Sofijka Najda - Newark, NJ

8. “Barvinok” – Astoria, NY – Dance

9. Sopilka Ensemble - Newark, NJ

“Iskra” - Whippany, NJ - Dance

MAIN PROGRAM

1. “Syzokryli” – NYC, NY – Dance - Pryvit

2. Promin – NYC, NY – Vocal Ensemble

3. “Mria” - Passaic, NJ – dance – “Beskydochka”

4. Vika Vasilevich - Ukraine – Vocal Entertainer

5. “Iskra” - Whippany, NJ - Dance – “Prachky”

6. Sisters Oros – Brooklyn, NY - Vocals

7. “Zolotyj Promin” – Hartford, CT – Dance

8. Olya Stashchyshyn & Lesya Hrabova - Newark, NJ – Musical Duo

9. “Halychyna”- Folk-ensemble

“Iskra” - Whippany - Dance – “Buko”

Ostap Stahiv – Bandura - Ukraine

Olya Fryz - Hartford, CT

“Syzokryli” – NYC - Lyrical Dance

Iryna Vasylevska – Phila, PA

“Halychyna”- Folk-ensemble

Roman Tsymbala – Newark, NJ - Tenor

“Syzokryli”- NYC, NY – Dance – “Culture Shock”

Vika Vasilevich - Ukraine - Vocal Entertainer

Oleg Chmyr – Morristown, NJ - Baritone

“Syzokryli” – NYC, NY – Dance

Vika (Victioria Vasilevich) from Zaporosia has been writing and performing her songs since age 7. Now 23, she has performed throughout Ukraine, the US and the Caribbean. Vika has completed advance studies at the Kiev University of Culture and Art, and she acts, directs, dances and choreographs as well as records her own music.

Promin Vocal Ensemble, under the direction of Bohdanna Wolanska, has drawn from the Greater NY-NJ area for over 30 years. They have performed up and down the East Coast and Canada, including the Kennedy Arts Center in Washington , D.C., Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York, and Harvard University in Massachusetts.

Oleh Chmyr, Winner of numerous International Competitions, a worldwide Opera and Concert performer, and distinguished Ukrainian Baritone, will perform during the Grandstand Program during the day, and sing the Ukrainian National Anthem before the Metrostars v New England game in the Stadium.

Olya Fryz is an accomplished vocalist and bandura instrumentalist who has been entertaining audiences for over 20 years with contemporary musical interpretations preserving her love for traditional Ukrainian song. Olya has to her credit 3 very popular Ukrainian albums: “Zhadaj” – “Remember”, “Zaprosy u sny” – “Into Your Dreams” and “Mother’s Lullabies”.

Ukrainian Soprano Oksana Krovytska was recently honored with New York City Opera's coveted "Diva Award"and labeled by the New York Times as "The center of our attention [and] the object of our admiration." She has performed with opera companies in New York, San Francisco, Baltimore, Moscow, Tokyo, Monte Carlo, Madrid... More

Roman Tsymbala, Tenor, a graduate of the State Theater in Lviv, who has performed with numerous Opera companies in the United States will perform during the Grandstand program and sing the Ukrainian National Anthem before the Ukrainian All-Stars v Metrostars Reserves game. More

The Pavlyshyn Sisters were born in the town of Sambor in the foothills of the Karpaty mountains. Now living in New York, they delight audiences with their duets featuring traditional Ukrainian melodies.

In our YOUTH Program:

Barvinok Dance Troupe from Astoria NY was founded by the late Roma Prima Bohachevska and is now directed by Orlando & Larissa Pagan.

Maria Kavatsiuk will be performing the National Anthem. Maria, 16, was born in Kyiv, and now attends Gov. Livingston HS in New Jersey. Besides winning several singing competitions, she has danced with the NJ Ballet Company and with the Ukrainian folk group Iskra.

The School of Ballroom Dancing from NYC teaches children the competitive sport of ballroom performance. Directed by Natalia Lemishka from Lviv.

CLICK ICONS FOR WEBSITES OF OUR PERFORMING & VISUAL ARTISTS:

Syzokryli

Art By Oksana

Olya Fryz

Olya Fryz CD

Voloshky