Folk Dance, Film, and the Life of Vasile Avramenko
by
Orest T. Martynowych
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
A quixotic figure, Vasile Avramenko (1895-1981) used folk culture and modern media in a life-long crusade to promote Ukraine’s struggle for independence to North American audiences. From his base in New York City, he built a network of folk dance schools and produced musical spectacles to help Ukrainian...