Varshavianka (1924)

Loyola University Chicago Department of Fine and Performing Arts Presents
Classical (R)evolution
Loyola’s Annual Dance Concert
FEB 11-14, 2016
Varshavianka (1924)
Choreography: Isadora Duncan
Staged and Coached by Jennifer Sprowl
Composer Jozef Plawinski
Costumes: Alex Wren Meadows
Reference: Nahumck, Nadia Chilkovsky. Isadora Duncan: The Dances. Washington DC: The National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1994.
The music is said to have originated during an 1831 uprising of Polish prisoners in Tsarist Russia. The words used by Duncan were popular in Russia during its revolutionary days. The dance portrays a shock-troop brigade, whose members rescue the flag (imaginary in the original dance) from fallen standard bearers and bring the battle to a victorious conclusion.
Isadora Duncan is reported to have arrived on the scene of the 1905 St. Petersburg massacre-"Bloody Sunday"-just days after it occurred. She dedicated the dance to the massacre victims. In the original version, the dancers also sang.
Maria Blanco
Emma Carlisle
Nicole Golonka
Katarina Ivanovic
Jordan Kunkel
Meghan McVann
Kelsee Simons
Jennifer Smith
Skylar Summerson
Isabelle Taylor
Virginia VanLieshout
Gina Wrolstad
Charlie Morris
Leslie Bahena (Understudy)

[@hanielcampos349]

When the revolution comes, I hope to see performances like this live. Bravo fellow workers!

[@DanielKaratavuk740]

Merci à vous ! C’est très émouvant ❤

[@carloscontreras54]

proletari di tutti i paesi uniamoci !!

[@TheApaura]

The fatal war we have entered
Will have heavy casualties
We put up proudly and boldly
The flag of the great proletarian war
Flag of the great struggle
For peace, for holy freedom
To bloody battle
Sacred and right
March, march forward!
Working people!

[@decade0240]

Nice name

[@karelwolf998]

this is simply amazing

[@jetwro]

To hasło święte, pieśń zmartwychwstania - it's the sacred call, the song of resurrection!
(line from original Polish lyrics)
One of most moving things I've ever seen.

[@ricardochimalcoatlroldanan4287]

trabajadores del mundo, ¡uníos!
Dance is the way we can demonstrate that united we are powerful

[@captain-fb4rh]

Our cause lives and always will remain. Workers of the world unite

[@bummer7736]

Rest in peace, for all the workers who have died in revolutions, protests and assassinations.

[@riccardofortuna7873]

and also the ones who died during their job cause the landlord wants to earn more plusvalore not caring of safety of working places...

[@natal_butt]

The percussive use of the flag is so genius

[@gregoryblaska1586]

WOW! Solidly performed.

[@RenaisDance]

So appropriate for today when war threatens again

[@OlegCoolych]

Вопрос один:
На кой ляд я это смотрю?

[@user-er5et8ub1d]

Terrible dance from Loyola University so and music uprising from Polish prisoners in Tsarist Russia. However the Red Army Choir is terrific!
Ужасный танец иезуитов из университета имени Лойолы, такова же музыка польских заключенных в тюрьмы царской России после восстания 1831 года, когда они ночью коварно перерезали весь русский гарнизон в Варшаве и других городах царства Польского, которое им даровал Адександр I и принудили бежать из Варшавы в Витебск его брата генерал-губернатора Константина. Однако хор Красной Армии просто великолепен!