Songs for Babyn Yar: The Making Of

80 years ago this autumn, Nazi occupying forces murdered more
than 33,000 Jews in the ravine of Babyn Yar in the suburbs of
Kyiv, Ukraine, over just two days. In the following two years of
Nazi occupation, Babyn Yar became the site of over 100,000
deaths.


This month, Dash Arts marks this anniversary by premiering a new
music theatre production, Songs for Babyn Yar, in London and
Ukraine with a work-in-progress sharing in Berlin. This
performance sees three Ukrainian musicians explore the legacy of
these massacres, drawing on survivors' testimonies, traditional
Yiddish and Ukrainian folk songs, poetry and storytelling, and
asking how we can move forward.


This podcast episode reveals the story of the making of the show,
its vision and the creative journey we have experienced as we
explore how to commemorate atrocity through the medium of
performance. Featuring interviews with the show's director
Josephine Burton; musicians Yuriy
Gurzhy, Svetlana Kundish and
Mariana Sadovska; and Dr Uilleam
Blacker, Associate Professor of Comparative Russian and
East European Culture at UCL.


Music credits


Songs featured: Mipney Ma and Rabbi Yuriy's Dance from Songs for
Babyn Yar


All the music was created and recorded in the rehearsal room with
Yuriy Gurzhy, Svetlana Kundish and Mariana Sadovska for Dash Arts


Intro music: Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi





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