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In 2017 and 2018 together with
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Fulbright Senior Scholar at the Theatre Institutes in Kyiv in 2002 and in Bishkek in 2008, as well as at the Kurbas Theatre Center in Kyiv (2016). She has conducted theatre workshops for Harvard Summer Institute for eleven years and has lectured at Yale School of Drama and Tisch
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African-American poet Wanda Phipps on translations of Ukrainian poetry. Their work has formed the core of many Yara theatre pieces and appeared in numerous American literary journals, anthologies and on CD inserts. Their translations used in Yara productions were
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Siberia. Together they created six original theatre pieces. Based on traditional material, rituals and shaman chants these pieces were performed at La MaMa, in Ulan Ude at the Buryat National Theatre, and in the villages of Aga-Buryat Region, These include
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Yara's work with Buryat artists led Tkacz and Phipps to collaborate with Sayan
Zhambalov on Buryat Mongolian translations. Their work on shaman chants was recognized by the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry Translation Award and led to the publication of their book
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based on one of the oldest Kyrgyz epics about a magical and darkly humorous journey into the underworld. Ihe show performed at La MaMa in 2009 and continues to perform in
Kyrgyzstan. Backstage called it "a small gem," "full of humor and terrific physicality."
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twenty of the best
Ukrainian poems from the Yara Workshops in award-winning translations by Virlana Tkacz & Wanda Phipps. The hand-made book was designed by Carmen Pujols in 1998. Each book is numbered and signed by the person who assembled
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revisioning fragments of Lesia
Ukrainka's classic 1911 verse play, which she translated with Wanda Phipps, and setting them in the future after some ecological catastrophe. The show was created, rehearsed and performed live on zoom, Yara's
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for BAM's Next Wave
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musical scores to explore our relationship to time and consciousness. Recent Yara pieces include "1917-2017: Tychyna Zhadan & the Dogs" was about the violence of war and received two New York Innovative Theatre Awards.
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In a Different Light: A Bilingual Anthology of Ukrainian Literature Translated into English by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps as Performed by Yara Arts Group
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by Serhiy Zhadan in their translations. The reviewer for Times Literary Supplement called Zhadan "a world-class poet" and their translations "masterful".
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