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Tamara Chernyakhovska leads a group in Ukranian folk dance at a Vechornytsi.Tamara Chernyakhovska - Ukranian folk dance
Tamara Chernyakhovska leads a group in Ukranian folk dance at a Vechornytsi.
Tamara Chernyakhovska is a Brooklyn-based Ukrainian choreographer, teacher, and dancer. For fifteen years she was a principal dancer with the G. G. Veriovka Ukrainian National Dance Company of Kyiv, and prior to this performed with the State Folk Ensemble of Ukraine. Tamara devoted herself to the study of Ukrainian village dance forms by traveling every year to remote villages throughout Ukraine to learn dances first-hand. Presently Tamara is the primary dance instructor for the ongoing Vechornytsi (Ukrainian village dance party) programs offered by the Ukrainian Community Cultural Initiative at New York’s Center for Traditional Music and Dance (www.ctmd.org).
Tamara has been teaching Ukrainian folk dance, as well as ballet, jazz, and modern dance, to children and adults in for more than thirty years. Ukrainian social dances taught include the men’s pleskan, the children’s arkan, the hop-and-kick polka, the shivering polka, the circular hutsulka, and many other regional forms. Her classes also introduce the cultural background of Ukrainian dance traditions and other folk practices associated with Vechornyti. She frequently works with live musical accompaniment, and performances with Tamara’s dance ensemble, Holubka, can by arranged.
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Tamara has been teaching Ukrainian folk dance, as well as ballet, jazz, and modern dance, to children and adults in for more than thirty years. Ukrainian social dances taught include the men’s pleskan, the children’s arkan, the hop-and-kick polka, the shivering polka, the circular hutsulka, and many other regional forms. Her classes also introduce the cultural background of Ukrainian dance traditions and other folk practices associated with Vechornyti. She frequently works with live musical accompaniment, and performances with Tamara’s dance ensemble, Holubka, can by arranged.
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