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Inka Juslin The Yellow , A dance performance, 08/16/08 08:00 pm

Inka Juslin THE YELLOW

A dance performance

The Ukrainian Institute of America, Inc. presents THE YELLOW, Inka Juslin’s collaborative multimedia performance, featuring two dancers, a musician, and a visual artist. By telling the story of an imaginary woman, Juslin’s choreography accentuates the architectural features of the Gothic mansion. The work asks how a strict division between public and private within one’s home affects the way life is lived there. Saturday, August 16 at 8 p.m., 2 East 79th Street, Manhattan, (212) 288-8660; $12 (general), $9 (seniors, students).

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Wine and cheese reception to follow.
Seating is limited. Reservations @ (212) 288-8660 will be appreciated.
Participants:
Inka Juslin, Finland – concept, choreography, dance
Svitlana Matviyenko, Ukraine – concept, dramaturgy, visual
Ronja Verkasalo, Finland – dance

Bios:
Inka Juslin is a Finnish dancer and choreographer currently based in New York City, where she collaborates across artistic disciplines and genres. She choreographs her own works as well as performs for other choreographers. Juslin is a visiting scholar at the Performance Studies Department at New York University. Her scholarly interest is related to new technologies and media, and to their use in conjunction with the human body, dance and movement. Juslin has choreographed dance and video works in Finland, and also in Asia, North America and Europe. Her doctoral choreography Redress was presented at the Kiasma Theatre in the Museum for Contemporary Art in Helsinki in October 2002.

She collaborates with companies, such as Melinda Ring Special Projects in New York, and continues a work-in-progress dance and new technologies project with Susan Kozel/Mesh Performance Practices, a company based both in US and Europe. She is currently working on a new research project relating to pre II World War East European theater dance culture, which also brings together dance and Yiddish film and theater.

Ronja Verkasalo is a dancer and an artist, with a strong focus on research in both performance work and teaching. She comes from a small island in the Gulf of Finland, surrounded by the sea. The sea and the weather conditions in the Finnish archipelago, while being the main source of her aesthetic, also teach perspective for her work as an artist in this time and age. Her work consists of choreographing and dancing, as well as writing, performance and conceptual art. She is currently a freelance artist, with previous posts e.g. at the National Theatre of Finland and the Riitta Vainio Dance Company. She began dancing after studying and writing much theory about the body and the politics of the body in the University environment. She still works with these same issues, but through the physical approach has come to a wider understanding of the work. She is continually in awe of how the body learns and teaches the mover.

Svitlana Matviyenko’s experimental video and photography addresses the medium as an essential part of an art work. She is a film, media and literary critic, she edited Literatura Plus, a newspaper of the Ukrainian Writers Association; she was a founder and an editor-in-chief of Komentar, a Ukrainian political and cultural monthly. Svitlana is a co-founder (with Virlana Tkacz) of ‘ROUND US poetry & performance series that has been on since 2002 in Kiev and New York. She is a Fulbright fellow, pursuing her PhD in new media art, visual theory and Lacanian psychoanalysis at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Svitlana Matviyenko curates a new series of experimental performance, launched at the Ukrainian Institute of America in New York.

Contact:
Ukrainian Institute of America (212) 288-8660
Svitlana Matviyenko (212) 288-8660, (212) 475-6474 Inka Juslin (646) 919-9531

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