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Ivan Kirchuk. VARAŽBIT - Enchanter / Іван Кірчук. ВАРАЖБІТ
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Fascinated with folk art, Ivan Ivanovich Kirchuk has been promoting and showing Belarusian folklore on national and international cultural platforms for 40 years. It all started with the first folklore and ethnographic expedition in 1983 to the Luban district of the Minsk region. In the village of Sarachi listening to Shmyelova Pilageya Mikhailovna, he recorded folklore from morning until one in the morning! From that time, Ivan Kirchuk fell in love with the wisdom of his ancestors, and began to study and illustrate the best examples of folklore at concerts, master classes, and festivals. In this, he was well helped by the members of the group "Diva", which he created based on the Minsk Institute of Culture Studies in 1985.
In 1995, Ivan Kirchuk created the group "Troitsa" during many experiments with the folk manner of singing, in combination with various instruments and sound accompaniments. In 27 years the group took part in more than 100 festivals in Belarus, Russia, Western Europe, and the United States of America and performed in Malaysia, Spain, and Canada. It also made a strong statement at the three largest "Womad" festivals organized by the European music producer and singer Peter Gabriel in England, Chile, and Russia.
In 1999, at the famous European recording studio PAN Records, Ivan Kirchuk recorded his first ethnic solo album "Spadčyna zahinuŭšych viosak" (Legacy of the Lost Villages), which was distributed almost all over the world. The disc presents stylized authentic songs collected in numerous expeditions around Belarus. As accompaniments, some melodies are played on folk musical instruments made by Belarusian masters (reed, ocarina, pipe, gusli, bagpipe, lyre, bow). At the same time, having received a grant from the George Soros Scientific Foundation, he performed with musical instruments, masks, and puppet theater "Batlejka" in ten cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In 2002, on the stage of Minsk Arena, Ivan presented the program "Sviaty viečar" (Holy Evening), which used archival recordings of the phonolaboratory of the Republican Radio. It was this performance that gave impetus to the creation of the folklore theater. Thus, while gradually studying folk wisdom, teaching stage theater of rites and manner of singing at the Belarusian State Pedagogical University named after Maxim Tank (1997-2016), he created his first one-man show "Enchanter", in which Belarusian folk songs from the cradle to the death bed to mourning are performed.
In 2005, together with the director of the Belarusian State Television Corporation, Syarhei Rybakov, Ivan Kirchuk went on a study trip to the Stolin District of the Brest Region. The result of this work was the record "Stolinshchyna" and the film "I Will be Sanctified by the Sun", which in 2006 was included in international film catalogs and was presented an award at the IV New York International Independent Film and Video Festival. In the new solo performance "I Will Be Sanctified by the Sun", Ivan extensively uses songs and improvisational orders. In 2011, the historical and cultural museum-reserve "Zaslaue" hosted an exhibition of collections of musical instruments from different parts of the world, as well as presented a restored version of "Enchanter. Continue". In 2014, the program "Confession under the Roofs", which took place in the 17th-century Pokrovsky Church of the Belarusian State Museum of Architecture and Life, was a success at the "Kamenitsa" festival. The one-man show "My Path...", which started in 2015, presents the calendar-ritual activity and life of a person from birth to death with new decorations and props.
Over the past five years, the mono-performance has been presented at the venues of the district and regional centers of Belarus
"Varažbit" (Enchanter) reveals all the wisdom of our ancestors, which does not lie on the surface but was preserved, as it were, by the priests and wizards of those times. The one-man performance, which existed under different names ("Holy Evening", "Enchanter", "I will be Sanctified by the Sun", "Confession under the Roofs", and "My Path…") and with different performers, turned into an incredible spectacle!
This is what Ivan Kirchuk has dreamed of for all his life.
Katsiaryna Kirchuk
In 1995, Ivan Kirchuk created the group "Troitsa" during many experiments with the folk manner of singing, in combination with various instruments and sound accompaniments. In 27 years the group took part in more than 100 festivals in Belarus, Russia, Western Europe, and the United States of America and performed in Malaysia, Spain, and Canada. It also made a strong statement at the three largest "Womad" festivals organized by the European music producer and singer Peter Gabriel in England, Chile, and Russia.
In 1999, at the famous European recording studio PAN Records, Ivan Kirchuk recorded his first ethnic solo album "Spadčyna zahinuŭšych viosak" (Legacy of the Lost Villages), which was distributed almost all over the world. The disc presents stylized authentic songs collected in numerous expeditions around Belarus. As accompaniments, some melodies are played on folk musical instruments made by Belarusian masters (reed, ocarina, pipe, gusli, bagpipe, lyre, bow). At the same time, having received a grant from the George Soros Scientific Foundation, he performed with musical instruments, masks, and puppet theater "Batlejka" in ten cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In 2002, on the stage of Minsk Arena, Ivan presented the program "Sviaty viečar" (Holy Evening), which used archival recordings of the phonolaboratory of the Republican Radio. It was this performance that gave impetus to the creation of the folklore theater. Thus, while gradually studying folk wisdom, teaching stage theater of rites and manner of singing at the Belarusian State Pedagogical University named after Maxim Tank (1997-2016), he created his first one-man show "Enchanter", in which Belarusian folk songs from the cradle to the death bed to mourning are performed.
In 2005, together with the director of the Belarusian State Television Corporation, Syarhei Rybakov, Ivan Kirchuk went on a study trip to the Stolin District of the Brest Region. The result of this work was the record "Stolinshchyna" and the film "I Will be Sanctified by the Sun", which in 2006 was included in international film catalogs and was presented an award at the IV New York International Independent Film and Video Festival. In the new solo performance "I Will Be Sanctified by the Sun", Ivan extensively uses songs and improvisational orders. In 2011, the historical and cultural museum-reserve "Zaslaue" hosted an exhibition of collections of musical instruments from different parts of the world, as well as presented a restored version of "Enchanter. Continue". In 2014, the program "Confession under the Roofs", which took place in the 17th-century Pokrovsky Church of the Belarusian State Museum of Architecture and Life, was a success at the "Kamenitsa" festival. The one-man show "My Path...", which started in 2015, presents the calendar-ritual activity and life of a person from birth to death with new decorations and props.
Over the past five years, the mono-performance has been presented at the venues of the district and regional centers of Belarus
"Varažbit" (Enchanter) reveals all the wisdom of our ancestors, which does not lie on the surface but was preserved, as it were, by the priests and wizards of those times. The one-man performance, which existed under different names ("Holy Evening", "Enchanter", "I will be Sanctified by the Sun", "Confession under the Roofs", and "My Path…") and with different performers, turned into an incredible spectacle!
This is what Ivan Kirchuk has dreamed of for all his life.
Katsiaryna Kirchuk