Gordon Gordey: Director and Dancemaker

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Gordon Gordey: Director and Dancemaker by Gordon Gordey illustrates Gordey’s journey as a dancer to a writer/librrettist to his eventual role to stage director in the colourful and dizzying world of Shumka dance.

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About Gordon Gordey: Director and Dancemaker by Gordon Gordey

Gordon Gordey was a key builder in the evolution of the Ukrainian Shumka Dancers of Canada. In his forty years with Shumka, Gordon transitioned from a dancer, to a librettist/writer, and to a stage director, conceiving twenty-five original dance works for Shumka from 1992 to 2012. His works set a benchmark for Ukrainian dance in Canada and have toured across Canada, Ukraine, and over 20 cities in china. Gordey also served as Shumka’s Artistic Director and Chief Executive Officer for 12 years. Gordey is privileged to be a Honourary Lifetime Member of the Ukrainian Shumka Dancers.

In his creative career outside of Shumka, Gordey studied ballet with Ruth Carse, founder of Alberta Ballet, spent 20 years as an Arts Consultant with the Department of Culture in Alberta, and worked for 13 years as a Human Rights Officer with the Alberta Human Rights Commission. He has been teaching Drama for 37 years at Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton. For Alberta’s Centennial in 2005, he conceived and produced Celebrate Alberta as part of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s official welcome to Alberta’s Centennial event, which included 1500 performers. In the same year, Gordey was recognized as one of the most influential people in the development of theatre in Alberta in the publication: Theatre 100. In 2006 he received the Hetman Award for Outstanding Contributions and Dedicated Service in Promoting Ukrainian Heritage and Culture in Alberta. He continues to serve the Ukrainian Canadian community as a National Board Member of the Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko.

This is the original English version from the Ukrainian translation published in “Collected Papers on Ukrainian Life in Western Canada”, edited by V. Polkovsky and M. Soroka, Ostroh Academy National University Press, 2014, Vol. XLVII, Part Seven, pp. 242-275.

Weight 244 g
Dimensions 10.65 × 8.45 × .20 in
Pages

58

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