[ALBSA-Info] Fwd: A Celebration of Serbian and other Balkan Music & Dance

[Agron Alibali]

  Kokkalis_Program at ksg.harvard.edu wrote: From Kokkalis_Program at ksg.harvard.edu Wed May 22 13:40:18 2002
From: Kokkalis_Program at ksg.harvard.edu
Subject: A Celebration of Serbian and other Balkan Music & Dance
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 16:40:18 -0400

The Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe would like to
bring the following event to your attention:


A CELEBRATION OF SERBIAN AND OTHER BALKAN MUSIC & DANCE
Saturday, May 25, 2002, 3pm
MIT - Kresge Auditorium, Cambridge, MA

Advance Purchase: $8 Students and Children (ages 7-12), $12 General
Admission
At the Door: $10 Students and Children (ages 7-12), $15 General
Admission
FREE: Children (ages younger than 7)

A CELEBRATION OF SERBIAN AND OTHER BALKAN MUSIC & DANCE
will include musically and visually captivating performances by:

1.THE SERBIAN FOLKLORE ENSEMBLE, "KOLO"
2.THE SINGER, SVETLANA STEVICH
3.THE SERBIAN FOLKLORE ENSEMBLE, "RASTKO"
4.THE SERBIAN FOLK DANCE ENSEMBLE, "GRACHANITSA"

"KOLO" was formed in 1969 in Hamilton, Canada, as an integral part of "St.
Nicholas" Serbian Orthodox Church on Barton Street. It prides itself on the
perpetuation of authentic choreography and costume design, and most
importantly, on the preservation of Serbian ethnic heritage.

Ms. Svetlana Stevich, a singer and ethnomusicologist, has been performing
for more than 25 years. She collects Serbian folk heritage (songs, customs,
stories) and interprets music from all over the former Yugoslavia using the
original singing style, known as pupevanje (blossoming). This is her first
North American appearance.

The "RASTKO" dance group is a part of "St. Sava" Serbian Orthodox Cathedral
in New York City. Keeping the European, primarily Serbian, traditional
dancing alive, RASTKO performances take their audience back in time.

Continuing the presence of Serbian and Balkan folk dancing in the Boston
area, "GRACHANITSA" was formed in 2000 by Djordje Koldzic, a former soloist
and assistant-choreographer with the National Folk Ballet of Yugoslavia
"Branko Krsmanovich". "GRACHANITSA" dancers are folk dance enthusiasts from
around the world.

The event is sponsored by the MIT Organization of Serbian Students and is
made possible through generous contributions from the MIT Graduate Student
Council, the Serbian-American Alliance of New England, and the Kokkalis
Program on Southeastern & East-Central Europe, John F. Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University. It is also sponsored by Hermes Phone, a low
cost provider of phone calls to Serbia and Montenegro and the rest of
Europe, and the Kolo Serbian Folklore Ensemble. All proceeds from the
performance will benefit the Sasha Aleksic Fund for Education (SAFE), a
non-profit organization established in Dr. Aleksic's memory to provide
need-based financial aid to talented students in Serbia and to support the
educational infrastructure there. There will also be a fund-raising
reception for SAFE following the performance.

MIT's Kresge Auditorium is located at 48 Massachusetts Ave (in the rear)
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307. For more details, please go to
http://whereis.mit.edu/bin/map?locate=kresge or
http://whereis.mit.edu/doc/getting-to-mit.html.

Advance tickets can be purchased at MIT's The Source located
in the Stratton Student Center (W20, 84 Massachusetts Ave, 617.252.1994)
and, during the final two weeks before the performance, in MIT's Lobby 10
(77 Massachusetts Ave) from 12-2 PM.
Please visit http://web.mit.edu/most/www/folklor.htm for additional
information.




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