Performance “Music Lessons” on March 7 at Jam Factory Art Center!
“Music Lessons” is a performance where dance, humor, and candid stories intertwine to explore family relationships, as well as the processes of upbringing and separation.
The performance is directed by the renowned Ukrainian film and theater actress Oksana Cherkashyna, who invited her mother Olha Cherkashyna and performer Maria Salo to participate.
Details:
▪️ When: March 7 at 7:00 PM
▪️ Where: Lviv, Jam Factory Art Center, 124 B. Khmelnytskoho St., Novo 1 Hall
▪️ Duration: 60 minutes
▪️ Ticket: 300 UAH (general seating)
Free entry (with registration) for…*
- Students
- Seniors
- Veterans
- Military personnel
You must show a document confirming eligibility upon entry.
Registration for discounted categories
Seats can also be reserved in advance by phone at +38 068 728 15 32 or directly at the art center reception before the show.
Please arrive on time. Once the performance begins, entry will not be possible due to the specific stage arrangement.
About performance
In the play “Music Lessons” three women meet. They dance, tell stories, dance, seek understanding, dance, learn from each other, dance, die, dance. Among them are a real mother and daughter who are trying to talk about their shared past, analyze the processes of care, upbringing and education in order to impair the hidden asymmetric motives of dominance and submission.
The relationship between mother and child is sacralized in traditional societies and therefore silenced. In a joint performance the actresses explore the question: is it possible to stop producing images of the traditional system? Can codependency transform into passionate acts of creativity? Is it possible to free yourself from the figure of the woman you love more than anything? Free yourself and find a space of autonomy and tenderness.
The object that forms the relationship between mothers and daughters here is art which is, at the same time, an act of pacification and a tool of emancipation. A woman in a post-reproductive age takes the stage and with her creative act undermines the defining role of motherhood, while professional female performers expose the violent mechanisms of artistic education. Embodying their own dramatic experience, they rediscover delicacy and care. We don’t know whether the authors of the performance manage to find answers to the outlined questions, but they really had a good time.
Based on the family and private mythologies of Mariia Salo, Oksana and Olha Cherkashyna.
TEAM
Director – Oksana Cherkashyna
Playwright – Liuba Ilnytska
Performers – Mariia Salo, Olha Cherkashyna, Oksana Cherkashyna
Composer – Olesia Onykiienko
Set designer – Olena Turianska
Costumes – Olena Turianska, Yuliia Rybka-Koval
Lighting artist – Nadiia Dihalevych
Sound director and technical director – Dmytro Chyryk
Production manager – Vladyslav Bilonenko
Project manager – Mariia Kosiichuk
Photos from the rehearsal
