Honeymoon of Volodymyra and Yosyf Zakhariia
- ID: 66193
- Date: 1961
Videos and films
- ID:
- 66201
- Place
- Salles (France)
- Date:
- 1992
- Genre:
- Amateur film
- Technique:
- Video (VHS)
- Color:
- color
- Sound:
- Sound
- Copyright
- Olena Kordiiak
- Collection
- Olena Kordiiak
- Description
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The film features footage of a performance by the 'Gorytsvit' folk dance ensemble of Lviv Medical University in the municipality of Salles.
1) 00:00:10 – 00:02:40 — Salles, performance by the 'Gorytsvit' ("Adonis") folk dance ensemble, 'Vitalnyi' dance "I was in the folk dance ensemble "Yunist" ("Youth"), led by Vanivsky, and before I joined, by Vantukh, but I had to leave because I needed to apply for university. At that time, there were 15 applicants for every place on the medicine and dentistry courses. So I had to leave "Yunist" and join "Gorytsvit". And they told me that if I were in 'Gorytsvit', it would be easier for me to get into university. But those were the years when Brezhnev had died, and after him came Andropov, and whoever else was there. And because I was from Lviv, I needed 2 years of work experience to get into medical school. I had to complete 2 years of practical training, although I could have applied to other regions, not to Lviv. I did those two years of practical training and then got in, but for the whole of those two years I danced with 'Horytsvit', and bear in mind that in 1987 I went on a tour to Poland with 'Horytsvit'. After 'Yunist', I went straight into the main troupe because I'd had the training. And the director of 'Horytsvit', Zenoviy Kolobych, told me: 'Right, you sign a five–year contract with me, you don't get married. You dance for me.' Well, that was just talk; I didn't sign anything. And in '87 we went to Poland to dance; I was in the group that carried out the bread – the first dance was 'Vitalny', but I didn't carry the korovai back then; others did that." In '88 we were in Germany, and I spoke German very well because I'd finished a German school, so those Germans were at my wedding. Then in '89, '90, '91 and '92 we went on tour – to France, Spain, Belgium and Portugal with "Gorytsvit". Commentary by Olena Kordiiak.
2) 00:02:41 – 00:06:09 — Dance ‘Polka Mukha’
3) 00:06:10 – 00:10:55 — Dance ‘Uzhansky Wedding’
4) 00:10:56 – 00:12:40 — Performance by the Ukrainian folk music ensemble. Composition 1
5) 00:12:41 – 00:16:42 — Sabre dance "Cossack Games"
6) 00:16:43 – 00:19:55 — Dance ‘Lyrical’
7) 00:19:56 – 00:26:24 — Theatrical couple dance with singing. Dance 'Wedding'
8) 00:26:25 – 00:31:11 — Dance ‘Hutsul’
9) 00:31:12 – 00:34:59 — Dance ‘Moldavian’
10) 00:35:00 – 00:36:56 — ‘Bereznyanka’ dance
11) 00:36:57 – 00:39:52 — ‘Belarusian’ dance
12) 00:39:53 – 00:44:05 — ‘Kumonky’ dance
13) 00:44:06 – 00:47:37 — ‘Bukovinian’ dance
14) 00:47:38 – 00:48:12 — The festival audience in front of the stage.
15) 00:48:13 – 00:54:01 — Dance ‘Hopak’
16) 00:54:02 – 00:55:09 — End of the performance. The presenters announce the leaders of the music and dance ensembles in French. The conductor of the orchestra is Volodymyr Kutula, and the director and choreographer of the dance ensemble is Zenon Kolobych. "We stayed with host families. I was placed with the mayor's family. There are only four houses in Salles: two castles and two houses. It was in one of those castles that Jean–Pierre lived, the man I speak to every week. Jean–Pierre had already visited when my first son was born, and again when my second son was born, as he hadn't been able to make it to the wedding. And there were only Germans there, because I met the Germans in '82, and Jean–Pierre in '88. Those were my final years at 'Gorytsvit'. And my flatmate—she lived with another girl—and he was just filming. And Jean–Pierre was the town's mayor at the time. The French – it's just the French language. So I learnt it. We spent two months on all sorts of trips, travelling by bus. Twelve costumes. In my group, 12 couples would dance one dance, and 4 couples would do the next. So some were dancing whilst others were changing. And those 12 costumes were hanging right in front of us the whole time. They were wet and damp, and it was sweltering. In Nice, for example. Jean–Pierre knew German well, and I already knew a little French. And I'd hear them speaking there, for instance, at the table, and I'd write it down in Ukrainian letters. And by the time we'd been with the family for the last few months—we'd been there for two months—we were so tired of that French. And here, for the last four days, we've been staying in a castle, and the owner speaks German. And after so many years of travelling, it was the first time I spoke German with ease. He fed us splendidly; his wife cooked, and we lived in the courtyard of the castle." Commentary by Olena Kordiiak. - Language:
- Ukrainian, French
- Tags:
- dance, music, festival, ensemble, audience, performance, folklore
