Out of Buryatia: New York City--based artists open the floodgates to a new appreciation of Eastern Siberia's culture and shamanism.
American Theatre, May, 2004 by Tkacz, Virlana
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IN 1996, I GOT OFF A PLANE IN SIBERIA AND WAS MET BY three actors from the Buryat National Theatre. I had never seen them before. We had been brought together by chance, and despite our struggle to communicate, we soon realized that we shared the same goals. We both wanted to create a new theatre inspired and infused by traditional music, song and legend.
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Since then, I have traveled every summer to different remote villages with my Buryat friends, collecting old stories and songs. Every winter the Buryat artists have traveled to New York City, and together we have created several ...
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