This season, Yara Arts Group celebrates its 30th anniversary. The season boasts a number of projects – from grand international productions to small intimate events. Below, Virlana Tkacz, artistic director of Yara, offers her reflections on this milestone.
Virlana, could you tell me about the history of Yara.
First of all, Yara Arts Group is not just me, it is really a group of people – like-minded artists who have worked in many functions in all our shows and events, and each of them brought very special contributions that helped create our art over the years. We started Yara Arts Group in 1990 to create a new theater piece with Ukrainian poetry, and it eventually became a piece about Les Kurbas and our own dreams. We called it “A Light from the East: A Docu-Dream.”