Live Programs:
Live programs in music and inter-media arts include concerts. These live programs can also cross boundaries between artist and audience; between music and other arts like drama and the visual arts; and between disciplines like the arts and other humanities or sciences, with talks, workshops, performance art and multi-media presentations.
Music programs are concerts of original and world music in solo, duo, trio, up to a seven-piece band (Otro Mundo). Concerts can include inter-active performances where audience members can participate by playing world rhythms on hand percussion instruments. Slavic vocal music workshops stem out of Olenka's heritage and her founding of the Zloti Village Chorus.
Assemblies and Residencies are educational programs for kids and include World Rhythms, and songwriting, incorporating elements of social studies, math, character education, performance and other disciplines.
Inter-media programs for adults include movement workshops that incorporate syncopated rhythms, elements of world dance, and energy movement work (Chi Gung).
Anyone can help book any of these live programs, especially in towns that Olenka hasn’t been to yet. Please contact us if you know of an audience that would enjoy this music in one of your local venues like a college, coffee house, house concert, art gallery, festival, women’s organization, or church. Individuals can also donate a music assembly or portion thereof to a school as a birthday gift on behalf of a favorite niece, nephew, godchild, etc.
• Original repertoire performed as a solo and in various sized ensembles up to the full band Otro Mundo, (which includes acoustic and electric guitar, bass, drums, two to three percussionists, and Zlotenici - two harmony female vocals with ethnic repertoire), as well as live collaboration with other songwriters and musicians local to the concert (see Residencies). Can be inter-active with audience participation.
• Grown
Wild: A tale of The Magdalene (music/performance art) A narrative
concert/one-woman show, with artwork. Original songs link together to portray
Mary Magdalene
as the Lover and Wise Woman, archetypes de-emphasized in the Western spiritual
tradition. Great for Women’s History month.
• Zloteniči – Slavic a cappella trio in Celtic garb! Songs and stories from the peripheries of Europe, traditional and original. Narrative concert with songs in seven languages, demonstrating songs found by the fictional Zlotenici women (Golden Threads), who travel a mythic land (Eastern/Northern Europe and Olenka’s imagination) collecting songs and stories of a people who have no standing army. With Laura Hopkins-Hiles and Lucia Dryanski.
• Zloti Village Chorus - an seven-piece a cappella chorus that grew out of Zlotenici. This is the only chorus in the world performing Slavic songs in English with Olenka's original lyrics. Kits with sheet music and instructions on the Slavic singing style will soon be available.
• Latin/Spanish language songs
• Celtic repertoire, solo songs and guitar support for Celtic jam circles, see calendar.
• Contemporary Pop and Contemporary World Music Covers get interspersed here and there according to how inspiration strikes
• Concerts for Elders, 40’s songs and standards, for senior centers and nursing homes.
• Songs for Kids, participatory concerts in world rhythms/character education
• World Rhythms in Original Music, assemblies for elementary and middle schools; inter-active and inter-disciplinary.
• Songwriting workshop concerts, for schools and adults.
• Integrating Chi: Mind and the Matrix of Subtle Energy (Chi Gung Workshop). (talk /movement)
• Hot Chi Ley: Dance and movement workshop, where the energetic “ley lines” within the body are stimulated and celebrated with syncopated and odd rhythms that clear blocked passages by encouraging serpentine motion.
• Interfaith Literacy: Understanding Metaphor as an Essential Language in the Age of Multi-Culturalism. (talk/sermon with music; Unitarian guest minister program)
• Growing Wild: The Unruly Bloom of Feminine Archetypes. (talk/multi media) (see also Grown Wild: A Tale of The Magdalene under music)