DANCE FILM

Melbourne Hopak

Moved by the response to that initial work ‘Pryvit’, we expanded our vision. We chose to reimagine Hopak, Ukraine’s most iconic and spirited dance, within the urban heart of Melbourne. This contrast between the rural and the metropolitan, between tradition and reinterpretation, became the cornerstone of our approach.

These films are not just documents of performance—they are cultural artefacts. They preserve memory, convey identity, and explore the dualities that shape our diasporic experience.

Pryvit 

From a single seed a harvest can be gathered and gleaned, and a people can grow and thrive.

Wheat represents food, life! For Ukrainians this gift of life was brutally taken away from them during the Holodomor* making this wheat all the more significant to the Ukrainian nation.

*Stalin’s forced famine/ genocide of the Ukrainian nation 1932-33