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Ukrainian Village Band: Maramarosh-Kolomyjka-Hora Medley.mov dykun 256 views Ukrainian Village Band playing a medley of tunes from the Carpathian Mountain region of Ukraine.
Ligo Dievseta 2010 dykun 92 views
Ukraine: Hutsulka in Kosmach, Part II dykun 7,991 views Hutsulka as danced in Kosmach, Ukraine. Filmed September, 2009 in the Narodnyj Dim in Kosmach, Ukraine. Hutsulka is a traditional couple's dance of the Hutsuls of the...
Eric and Jenny at the Black Forest dykun 570 views Some friends playing German and Austrian music at the Black Forest restaurant and bar in Minneapolis. They had just come from playing a gig elsewhere. . .
Ukraine: Arkan (i.e., Vargan, Argan) at a Wedding in Rungury dykun 18,928 views This is a brief snippet of the 30-45 minute documentary we are preparing about what remains of authentic (non-performance style) Hutsul dance in the villages of Hutsulshchy...
Ukraine: Hutsulka in Kosmach, Part I dykun 10,846 views This is a clip of two teenagers (as we say in American English) dancing the Hutsulka at a wedding in the village of Kosmach, Ivano-Frankivsk state, in western Ukraine. C...
Ukraine: Mykhajlo Mykolajevych Tafijchuk plays the Volynka dykun 9,133 views This is footage of Mykhajlo Mykolajevych Tafijchuk playing a volynka--"volynka" is one of the words Hutsuls use for a type of bag pipe common throughout the Carpathian Moun...
Ukraine: Mykhajlo Mykolajevych Tafijchuk plays the Telynka dykun 4,454 views This is footage of Mykhajlo Mykolajevych Tafijchuk playing a telynka, which is the Hutsul word for a wind instrument that is common throughout the Carpathian Mountains. Th...
Ukraine: Hutsulka in the village of Velykyj Kljuchiv dykun 13,605 views As of mid-August, 2008, I am in Ukraine with the director of the Ethnic Dance Theatre (www.ethnicdancetheatre.com) in search of what remains of authentic dance in the villa...
Latvia: Summer Solstice (Jani) 2006 with Skandinieki dykun 7,829 views In Latvia, the biggest summer holiday, and arguably the most important of all yearly holidays, is the Summer Solstice or the Feast of St. John the Baptist. The territories...

About Stefan Iwaskewycz

Videos of folk music and dance and life in general in Ukraine and Latvia.

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Jan 31, 2012

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Jul 29, 2006

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I grew up in the US, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. There are +/- 12,000 people that claimed Ukrainian roots in the Mpls-St Paul area in the most recent census. I have two grandfathers and one grandmother from Halychyna and one Baba from Poltavshchyna. My parents were born in the course of WWII, lived the earliest part of their lives in refugee (DP) camps, and then came as children to the US. Thus I describe myself as an Ukrainian-American, which means to me that I am neither American like those Americans who did not grow up in a diaspora or ethnic community, but also means that I am not &quot;Ukrainian&quot; like those born and raised in Ukraine--it's a third identity entirely unto itself.

I have studied Cultural Studies, History, Philosophy, and Comparative Literature, all with an emphasis on Eastern European Studies and the history of Marxist thought and continental political philosophy.

I've lived in and traveled to Ukraine many times.

I also am musician and dancer. I have performed (off and on) with the Ethnic Dance Theater of Minneapolis since 1999. We in EDT perform in traditions from all over the world, but are deeply rooted in the folk cultures of Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Central Asia, and parts of the Middle East. I also am the organizer of a Mpls-based Ukrainian Village Band, in which we play Ukrainian, Rusyn and other central European folk music in both authentic and "Euro-Cafe" styles.

I am a father and spend most of my time between two continents and three countries: US, Ukraine, and Latvia.

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