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WSD2017|Songs of the Kobzar
 
1-9 July.Taipei, Taiwan
An extraordinary festival of performance design, including exhibitions, performances
and diverse events,attracted over 15,000 visitors from 71 countries.

Exhibition

Professional Designers

Ukraine

Pavlo Bosyy

Songs of the Kobzar

Category: Performance Design, Set Design, Costume Design, Projection and multi-media Design, Lighting Design

Design Statement

The show is based on the poetry and paintings by the great Ukrainian national poet and artist, Taras Shevchenko (1814-1861) and dedicated to the bi-centennial of his birth. The director, Oleksandr Inozemtsev has identified shadow theatre as his stylistic choice. I decided to use the shadows of the actors and the shadow puppets for the narrative component of the production and animated rear-projected Shevchenko’s iconic paintings for the foreground. I designed the shadow puppets for the central scene of the show based on the satirical poem, The Dream. The poem is a sarcastic take on a heavily bureaucratised colonial state; at the time when the show was produced the poem was perceived as reflection of the current political situation.
I suggested to use the video of one of the fallen heroes of Ukrainian revolution of 2013-14, Serhiy Nigoyan, reciting one of Shevchenko’s poem’s as the symbolic ending of the show.

Pavlo Bosyy

Assistant Professor of Theatre Production at Ryerson Theatre School, Ryerson University, Toronto (Ontario, Canada) Pavlo Bosyy has taught Theatre Arts, History, and Humanities for more than 25 years at the college and university level. Pavlo also worked as Principal Resident Designer (Scenographer) at Kirovohrad State Puppet Theatre and Kropyvnytsky State Theatre, both in Kirovohrad (Ukraine). He designed, directed or performed for about 200 projects at regional and academic theatres in Canada, Ukraine and the USA and at the Off-Broadway companies. Pavlo’s work has been featured in the Southeastern Theatre Conference, the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, the United States Institute for Theatre Technology’s Young Designers’ Forum, and in other numerous international conferences in the United States and Western Europe. He has participated in theatre design exhibits such as World Stage Design and Prague Quadrennial as well as at the Ming’s Clambake portfolio review. Professional credits include Volyn State Puppet Theatre, Odessa Theatre for the Young Audiences, Poltava State Puppet Theatre (all in Ukraine), Le Ballet du Siècle de Taipei (Taipei, Taiwan), New York Fringe Festival, Equity Showcases at Take Wing and Soar company, Yangtze Repertory Company and The Billie Holiday Theatre (NYC), Michigan’s Meadowbrook Theatre, Plowshares Theatre Company and Jewish Ensemble Theatre, Texas Shakespeare Festival and Daemon Theatre (Toronto, Ontario, Canada). Pavlo holds an MFA degree in Production Design and Technology from Ohio University (USA); he is a member of UNIMA and ADC. Pavlo’s work is available at his web site https://sites.google.com/site/pavlobosyy/

Email Address: pavlobosy@yahoo.com

Theatre Company Volyn Academician Regional Puppet Theatre (Lutsk, Ukraine)

The Premiere Date of Production 2014-02-23

The Premiere Space of Production Volyn Academician Regional Puppet Theatre (Lutsk, Ukraine)

Author Taras Shevchenko

Director/ Choreographer Composed and Directed by Oleksandr Inozemtsev

Set Designer Pavlo Bosyy

Lighting Designer Pavlo Bosyy

Costume Designer Pavlo Bosyy

Sound Designer Kostyantyn Yavorsky

Projection and Multi-Media Designer Pavlo Bosyy

Other Creative Collaborator/s The Paintings by Taras Shecvhenko Used in the Projections Animated by Leonid Tyvoniuk
Choreographed by Volodymyr Zamlynnyj