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    Eve of Kupalo - a midsummer’s night mystery masque
    (2011) Gordey, Gordon; Ganert, Dave; Shoost, Andrij
    Video performance excerpts from a 2011 live performance for a contemporary original dance theatre work titled Eve of Kupalo - a Midsummer’s Night Mystery Masque, conceived and directed by Gordon Gordey. This dancework was created for The Ukrainian Shumka Dancers of Canada. Eve of Kupalo – a Midsummer’s Night Mystery Masque premiered at the 2,700 seat Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on March 19, 2009. Since then it has toured across Canada and has toured to China, where it played 22 performances in major theatres in 14 cities carrying the Kupalo metaphor of the spirituality of renewal, ritual, and love.
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    Eve of Kupalo - a midsummer’s night mystery masque
    (2011) Gordey, Gordon; Ganert, Dave; Shoost, Andrij
    Video performance excerpts from a 2011 live performance edited for a tour to China of Eve of Kupalo - a Midsummer’s Night Mystery Masque. This dance theatre work was conceived and directed by Gordon Gordey for The Ukrainian Shumka Dancers of Canada. Eve of Kupalo – a Midsummer’s Night Mystery Masque premiered at the 2,700 seat Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on March 19, 2009. Since then it toured across Canada and toured to China, where it played 22 performances in major theatres in 14 cities carrying the Kupalo metaphor of the spirituality of renewal, ritual, and love.
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    Girl in the red dress TANGO
    (2008) Gordey, Gordon; Ganert, Dave; Sato, Leo; Shoost, Andrij
    Video performance excerpts from a 2008 live performance of Girl in the Red Dress TANGO. Created for the Ukrainian Shumka Dancers of Canada to an original music score by Andriy Shoost, Kyiv, Ukraine. Girl in the Red Dress TANGO features dancers Jayleen Gordey and Leo Sato with dancers from the Ukrainian Shumka Dancers of Canada.
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    Pathways to Hopak
    (2011) Gordey, Gordon; Lytvynov, Viktor; Levytski, Maria; Ganert, Dave; Shevchenko, Yuri
    Video performance excerpts edited in 2011 for a contemporary original dance theatre work titled Pathways to Hopak, conceived and directed by Gordon Gordey. Libretto and choreography were undertaken by Viktor Lytvynov. Set and costume design by Maria Levytski. The dancework was created for The Ukrainian Shumka Dancers of Canada.
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    Shumka remembers
    (2013) Gordey, Gordon; Ganert, Dave
    Video performance excerpts for a contemporary original dance theatre work titled Shumka Remembers, conceived and directed by Gordon Gordey. Video excerpt contains commentary from Gordon Gordey at the site of an internment camp in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada.This dancework was created for The Ukrainian Shumka Dancers of Canada. Shumka Remembers is a contemporary Ukrainian Canadian narrative folk dance theatre work with video exploring the unjust internment of Ukrainian Canadians as “enemy aliens” in Canada during WWI. These “enemy aliens” were subjected to having to carry registration identity papers, often pay monthly registration fees, and were under constant surveillance. Of the 80,000 who were registered under the authority of the Act, 8,579 were deemed: “enemy aliens”. The majority of “enemy aliens” were Ukrainians and were arrested and interned in 26 makeshift encampments located mostly in Canada’s frontier hinterlands. They were forced into hard labour clearing land for roads, building bridges, and building the railway.
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    Vechornytsi (Life is a cabaret)
    (2013) Gordey, Gordon; Ganert, Dave
    Video performance excerpts of Vechornytsi-Life is a Cabaret edited in 2013 featuring live performances with orchestra and on stage projected video. Six cabaret style contemporary original dance works are featured to upbeat re-envisioned folk songs in a pop style including the classical style Melodia by Ukraine composer, Mykola Skoryk. These danceworks were created for The Ukrainian Shumka Dancers of Canada.
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    Voices of the silenced
    (2013) Gordey, Gordon; Ganert, Dave; Lilley, Stephanie; Kochan, Alexis; Dunn, Maria; Pugh, Ryan
    Video performance excerpt of a contemporary original dance theatre work titled Voices of the Silenced, conceived and directed by Gordon Gordey. This dancework was created for The Ukrainian Shumka Dancers of Canada. Voices of the Silenced is a contemporary Ukrainian Canadian narrative folk dance theatre work with video exploring the unjust internment of Ukrainian Canadians as “enemy aliens” in Canada during WWI. These “enemy aliens” were subjected to having to carry registration identity papers, often pay monthly registration fees, and were under constant surveillance. Of the 80,000 who were registered under the authority of the Act, 8,579 were deemed: “enemy aliens”. The majority of “enemy aliens” were Ukrainians and were arrested and interned in 26 makeshift encampments located mostly in Canada’s frontier hinterlands. They were forced into hard labour clearing land for roads, building bridges, and building the railway.