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From Ukraine with love.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-APR-04 		Format: Online - approximately 881 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: From Ukraine with love.(Young Dancer[R])(Tetyana Martyanova, Kateryna Derechyna)(Biography)

Article Excerpt
On Easter mornings in the Ukraine, young girls perform a centuries-old dance--the hahilky--to usher in the spring. Performed on consecrated ground like churchyards and cemeteries, the steps celebrate newly reawakened nature, imitating the planting and growth of trees and crops to court the grace of benevolent spirits. Tetyana Martyanova (Tania) and Kateryna Derechyna (Katya) grew up dancing in the Ukraine. "When I was little I liked watching nature, to see how it moves," muses Tania through an interpreter. "That really inspires me, and I wanted to emulate that." Now, a continent and an ocean away front their Black Sea home, the two friends are dancing on professional stages and charming American audiences with their performances.

Their odyssey together began in Odessa, Ukraine, where they started their ballet training at age 8...

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