Virlana Tkacz

**Virlana Tkacz** (an haife ta a watan Yuni 23, 1952 a Newark, New Jersey ) ita ce darektan kafa na "Yara Arts Group", wani kamfani mai zama a shahararren gidan wasan kwaikwayo na La MaMa na a New York. Ta yi karatu a Kwalejin Bennington da Jami'ar Columbia, inda ta sami Master of Fine Arts a cikin jagorancin wasan kwaikwayo.

Tare da kungiyar 'Yara' ta ƙirƙira sama da gidajen wasan kwaikwayo 30 waɗanda ke haɗa gajerun waƙoƙi na zamani da waƙoƙin gargajiya, waƙoƙi, almara da tarihi daga Gabas don ƙirƙirar ƙirar ƙima tare da ba da labari. Gwaji a cikin sigar su da ainihin su, suna amfani da bidiyo, hotuna da aka tsara, da makin kida masu rikitarwa don bincika dangantakarmu da lokaci da wayewa. Yankunan Yara na baya-bayan nan, "Mafarkan Ƙarƙashin Ƙasa" da "Bugawa Bedrock," sun dogara ne akan hira da matasan birane da 'yan gudun hijira, yayin da "1917-2017: Tychyna Zhadan & Dogs" ya kasance game da tashin hankali na yaki kuma sun sami lambar yabo ta New York Innovative Theater Awards. http://www.nyitawards.com/news/newsitem.asp?storyid=419 

## Ayyukan wasan kwaikwayo
Ms. Tkacz ta ƙirƙira gidajen wasan kwaikwayo na asali sama da guda ashirin da biyar na waɗanda suka kasance haɗin gwiwa tare da kamfanonin wasan kwaikwayo na gwaji daga Gabashin Turai. An kuma yi waɗannan sassa a La MaMa a New York, a manyan gidajen wasan kwaikwayo a Kyiv, Kharkiv da Lviv da kuma a bukukuwan wasan kwaikwayo na duniya, da kuma a cibiyoyin al'adu na ƙauye. Yara 'yan kwanan nan *Dark Night, Bright Stars*, ya kasance game da taron mawaƙin Ukrainian Taras Shevchenko da ɗan bala'i na Amurka Ira Aldridge, wanda NY Theater Wire ya kira "mai ban mamaki," yana rubuta: "A kan matakin ƙasa, wannan wasan kwaikwayo labari ne game da biyu. Abokan da ke da irin wannan tarihin suna da musayar al'adu, amma ku zurfafa bincike kuma ku gano jigogi na kabilanci da talauci, zalunci da 'yanci, ɓangarorin waje da kuma burin gida. Ta ƙirƙira "Opera GAZ"  tare da Nova Opera daga Kyiv da aka yi a La MaMa a New York a watan Disamba 2019 kuma ana kiranta da "kyakkyawa," "ɗaya daga cikin mafi kyawun wasan operas na zamani" da "dole ne a kalla." 

A shekarar 1996 ta fara aiki tare da mawakan asalin garin Buryat na Siberiya. Tare suka kirkiro guda shida na asali na wasan kwaikwayo. Dangane da kayan gargajiya, al'adu da rera waƙoƙin shaman an yi waɗannan guntu a La MaMa, a Ulan Ude a gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Buryat, da ƙauyukan Aga-Buryat, waɗanda suka haɗa da *Circle*, wanda ya shiga cikin repertoire na Buryat National Theater kwanan nan bayan wasan kwaikwayonsa na 330 ya zama wasan kwaikwayo na kamfanin. The Village Voice ya rubuta: "Aiki mai ban sha'awa mai ban sha'awa, *Circle*, gaugawa a hankalinku, yana sa zuciyar ku ta buga, kuma tana girgiza jin ku." 

A cikin shekarar 2005 Ms. Tkacz ta yi aiki a kan fassarar *Janyl Myrza*, wasan almara na Kyrgyzstan na karni na 17 game da mace jarumi. Bayan tafiya zuwa Dutsen Celestial, ta kirkiro *Janyl*, tare da masu fasaha daga Yara da Sakhna Nomadic Theatre na Kyrgyzstan. An yi wasan kwaikwayon a La MaMa a shekara ta 2007, babban birnin Bishkek, cibiyar yankin Naryn da kuma cikin tsaunukan Celestial, inda labarin Janyl ya faru. Hotuna daga *Janyl* an nuna su a *Kyrgyzstan Epic Theater a New York: Hotunan Margaret Morton* da Jami'ar Tsakiyar Asiya ta buga a 2008.  A cikin 2008 Virlana ta ƙirƙiri *Er Toshtuk* bisa ɗaya daga cikin tsoffin almara na Kyrgyzstan game da balaguron sihiri da duhu mai ban dariya a cikin duniyar ƙasa. An yi wasan kwaikwayon a La MaMa a cikin 2009 kuma yana ci gaba da yin wasa a Kyrgyzstan. Backstage ya kira shi "ƙaramin dutse mai daraja," "cike da ban dariya da yanayin jiki." 

Baya ga aikinta tare da Yara, Ms. Tkacz ta jagoranci shirin *Return of the Native* don Bikin Bikin Wave na gaba na BAM tare da mawaki Peter Gordon da mai zanen bidiyo Kit Fitzgerald. Aikin da aka yi a Tucano Arts Festival a Rio de Janeiro da kuma Het Muziektheater a Amsterdam. Ta kuma yi aiki tare da su a kan *Blue Lights a cikin Basement*, abin tunawa ga Marvin Gaye a BAM Opera House. A zauren Aaron Davis ta shirya Sekou Sundiata's *Mystery of Love*, ETC. Ta yi aiki tare da David Roussève akan *Mana Goes to the Moon*, sannan kuma ta jagoranci wasan kwaikwayo don Ƙungiyar 'Yan Asalin Amirka, Aikin Mata da kuma a Tsibirin Coney.

Ms. Tkacz ta kasance babban Malama na Fulbright a Cibiyar wasan kwaikwayo a Kyiv a 2002 da kuma a Bishkek a 2008, da kuma a Kurbas gidan wasan kwaikwayo Center a Kyiv (2016). Ta gudanar da bitar wasan kwaikwayo don Cibiyar bazara ta Harvard har tsawon shekaru goma sha ɗaya kuma ta yi lacca a Makarantar Yale na Drama da Tisch School of Arts a NYU. Ta taimaka wa daraktoci irin su Andrei Serban, Ping Chong, George Ferencz da Wilford Leach a La MaMa, da kuma Sir Peter Hall a Broadway da Michael Bogdanov a gidan wasan kwaikwayo na kasa a London.

## Littattafai da fassarori
Tun daga 1989 ta yi aiki tare da mawaki ba-Amurke "Wanda Phipps" akan fassarorin wakokin Ukrainian. Ayyukansu sun zama ginshiƙan ɓangarorin wasan kwaikwayo na Yara da yawa kuma sun bayyana a cikin mujallun adabin Amurka da yawa, tarihin tarihi da abubuwan da aka saka CD. An buga fassarorin su da aka yi amfani da su a cikin abubuwan samarwa na Yara a cikin 2008 azaman tarihin tarihin harsuna biyu a *cikin wani haske daban-daban* . Tare sun sami lambar yabo ta Agni, tallafin fassarar NYSCA guda bakwai da lambar yabo ta National Theater Translation Fund don aikin da suka yi akan wasan kwaikwayo na *baiti Forest Song* . Tkacz da Phipps suma sun dukufa wajen fassara kayan gargajiya da suka haɗa da: tatsuniyoyi, waƙoƙi, waƙoƙi da almara. A cikin 2005 an ba Tkacz lambar yabo ta NEA Fassara Fassarar Waƙoƙi don aiki akan waƙar Serhiy Zhadan na zamani. Kwanan nan Jarida ta Jami'ar Yale ta buga *Abin da Muke Rayuwa Don/Abin da Muka Mutu Don: Zaɓaɓɓun Waƙoƙi* na Serhiy Zhadan a cikin fassararsu. Mai bitar Karin Adabin Times ya kira Zhadan “mawaƙi mai daraja ta duniya” da fassarorinsu “masu ƙwarewa.”  An zabi littafin ne don Kyautar Fassarar Waqoqin (Poetry Translation Award) PEN.

Ayyukan ta da kungiyar "Yara" tare da masu fasaha na Buryat sun jagoranci Tkacz da Phipps don yin aiki tare da Sayan Zhambalov akan fassarar Buryat Mongolian. Ayyukansu akan waƙoƙin shaman sun sami karɓuwa daga Gidauniyar Witter Bynner don Kyautar Fassarar Waƙa kuma ta jagoranci buga littafinsu *Shanar: Dedication Ritual of a Buryat Shaman* ta Parabola Books a 2002. An buga littafin a cikin takarda a matsayin *Siberian Shamanism: The Shanar Ritual of the Buryats* in 2015 da kuma a cikin Faransanci kamar yadda *Chamanisme Siberien: Le Rituel du Shanr des Bouriates" a cikin 2017.*

Tkacz ta buga labarai a cikin *Nazarin Tarihin Gidajen wasan kwaikwayo*, *Jaridar Nazarin* Yukren, *Takardun Slavonic na Kanada*, da *Nazarin Slavic na Kanada-Amurka* kuma ya rubuta game da nata aikin a *gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Amurka* . A cikin 2010 ta haɗa haɗin gwiwa tare da Irena Makaryk *Modernism a Kyiv: Gwajin Jubilant*, wani babban littafi kan fasahar Kyiv a cikin 1920s wanda Jami'ar Toronto Press ta buga a 2010. Uilliam Blacker ya yi bitar littafin kwanan nan don Nazarin Yukren Harvard kuma ya rubuta: “Ƙararren Irena Makaryk da Virlana Tkacz game da rayuwar al’adun kyiv mai ƙarfi a zamanin zamani yana wakiltar babbar nasara a cikin karatun Ingilishi kan al’adun Ukraine. Ƙirar ta dawo da al'adun zamani na zamani da aka yi watsi da su na Ukraine ga mai karatu mai magana da Ingilishi, amma mahimmancinsa shine, ta hanyar girman girman aiki da tsarin aikin, kuma ya fi wannan: a cikin hankalinsa ga yanayin al'adu na kasa da kasa da (neo) Tsarin mulkin mallaka da halaye, ƙarar tana wakiltar gyara ga madaidaicin babban birni na malanta kan al'adun zamani." 

A shekara ta 2007, anyiwa Virlana Tkacz lakabi da muhimmiyar mawakiyar Ukraine wato “Honored Artist of Ukraine."  A cikin 2021, an yi *waƙar Virtual Forest Song* yayin bala'in cutar ta Covid akan layi ta amfani da fasahar Zoom don wasa da hotunan bishiyoyi (oak, sycamore, birch da willow) suna haɗe da ƴan wasan kwaikwayo, kiɗa, da hotuna na gidajen 'ƙone da ruguza' daga yankunan da ake rikici a gabashin Ukraine. 

## Shirye-shiryen da Virlana Tkacz ta ƙirƙira tare da kungiyar Yara Arts Group
2021 *Virtual Forest Song* 

2019 *Opera GAZ*
2019 *Winter Songs on Mars* 
2018 *Following the Milky Way*  
2017 *1917/2017: Tychyna, Zhandan and the Dogs* 
2016 *Dark Night, Bright Stars* 
2015 *Hitting Bedrock* 
2014 *Capt. John Smith Goes to Ukraine* 
2014 *Winter Light* 
2014 *Underground Dreams* 
2013 *Fire, Water, Night*
2013 *Midwinter Night* 
2012 *Dream Bridge*
2011 *Raven*
2010 *Winter Sun*
2010 *Scythian Stones*
2009 *Er Toshtuk*
2008 *Still the River Flows*
2007 *Janyl*
2005 *Koliada: Twelve Dishes*
2004 *The Warrior's Sister*
2003 *Swan*
2002 *Howling*
2002 *Kupala* 
2001 *Obo: Our Shamanism*
2000 *Song Tree*
2000 *Circle*
1998-99 *Flight of the White Bird*
1996-1997 *Virtual Souls*
1995 *Waterfall/Reflections*
1994 *Yara's Forest Song*
1993 *Blind Sight* 
1992 *Explosions*
1990-91 *A Light from the East/In the Light*
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## Littattafai

** ''What We Live For/What We Die For: Selected Poems'', by Serhiy Zhadan, translated by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phippps, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.
** ''Modernism in Kyiv: Jubilant Experimentation'' , edited by Irena R. Makaryk and Virlana Tkacz, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.
** ''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'' , edited by Olha Luchuk, Lviv: Sribne Slovo Press, 2008
** ''Kyrgyz Epic Theatre in New York: Photographs by Margaret Morton''  edited by Virlana Tkacz, Bishkek: University of Central Asia, 2008.
** ''Shanar: Dedication Ritual of a Buryat Shaman''  by Virlana Tkacz, with Sayan Zhambalov and Wanda Phipps, photographs by Alexander Khantaev, New York: Parabola Books, 2002.
** ''Ten Years of Poetry from the Yara Theatre Workshops at Harvard''  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 it.

## Manazarta

## Hanyoyin haɗi na waje

* Yara Arts Group