KITKA: Features

Features

Recent Media Features

See a profile of Kitka produced by KQED-TV’s SPARK*

Produced by KQED Public Television, Spark is an award-winning program about San Francisco Bay Area artists and arts organizations -- it is a weekly television show, an educational outreach program and a Web site. Spark takes the audience inside the creative process to witness the challenges, opportunities and rewards of making art.

Watch the Kitka feature on Spark >

The Rusalka Cycle

See photos from the 2005 production >

KITKA's adventurous vocal-theater project The Rusalka Cycle: Songs Between the Worlds premiered to packed houses and overwhelming response in Novemner 2005 in Oakland, California. Our work with composer/performance artist Mariana Sadovska, and stage director Ellen Sebastian Chang challenged and stretched us into some very exciting new forms of creative expression, and we, as artists have been deeply transformed by this experience. KITKA has since remounted the show in San Francisco and at The Revolutions International Theater Festival in 2008 in Albuquerque, NM. In April 2009, we brought the show back to Ukraine with additional performances at the Giving Voice Festival in Poland and Golbalize:Colonge 2009 in Germany. In June 2010, we will perform The Rusalka Cycle at the Stimmen Festival in Lorrach Germany.

View Kitka's 2009 European tour photos on Flickr >

Singing Through Darkness

Images from the 2010 Premiere Performances >

Review of Singing Through Darkness by Jaime Robles >

Performances took place at
Satya Yuga
954 60th St.
Oakland, CA 94608

Kitka on YouTube

Bulgarian Memories

We had an amazing time in Bulgaria working, playing, and performing with the astonishing singers of Le Mystére des Voix Bulgares. Here is our on-line chronicle of our Bulgarian adventure, complete with photos and journal entries! Heartfelt thanks the many individuals and organizations who contributed towards our Balkan travel fund and enabled us to realize this dream-journey!

“Travel back through the centuries, and then listen to KITKA. These eight women provide the heart and soul of this production, creating a nasal, dissonant sound that gives voice to human suffering. It’s a lament that creeps into your consciousness in the most subtle way. The voices of that marvelous chorus produces shivers.”

Patti Hartigan, The Boston Globe