Collection search - Vasile Avramenko fonds [textual record, graphic material, moving images]

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Vasile Avramenko fonds [textual record, graphic material, moving images]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1907-1977.

Reference:

R6747-0-8-E, MG31-D87

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs, Art, Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

106780

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Vasile Avramenko fonds
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Fonds includes:

17 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1907-1977.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

10.91 m of textual records.
1921 photographs : multiple processes.
9 prints : offset lithographs.
40 film reels.
8 optical tracks.
2 videocassettes.
3 magnetic tracks.

Language of material:

English

Added language of material:

English, Ukrainian

Scope and content:

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Fonds consists of the papers of Vasile Avramenko including personal documents, biographical notes, correspondence, financial records, and notes on performances, Ukrainian folk ballet, choreography and dance, films and related projects. Also includes illustrations, press clippings, newspapers, bulletins, circulars and other periodicals. Additional unprocessed material can be found in volumes 25-34, 40-41, 43-82, 85, 87-90.

Fonds also consists of photographs of the events and activities, groups and individuals associated with the life and work of Avramenko as choreographer, popularizer of Ukrainian folk dance, actor and organizer of dance schools. Includes production stills from the films "Marusia" and "Natalka Poltavaka".

Fonds also consists of motion picture posters for the films "The Girl From Poltava", "Cossacks in Exile" and "Marusia" (3 copies of each).

Fonds also consists of moving images shot by Mr. Avramenko, primarily dealing with the history of Ukrainian Canadians.

Included in horizontal storage: primarily posters regarding various ballets, chorus and dances, and films, containers 91 to 133. Containers 134 to 147 have unidentified contents.

Provenance:

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Avramenko, Vasyl'

Biography/Administrative history:

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Avramenko, Vasyl' : Vasile Avramenko was born on March 22 in Stebliv, Kiev Oblast, Ukraine. He attended a teachers college in Vladivostok, Russia in 1913-14. He served in the Russian Army in 1915-17 and in the Ukrainian Army in 1918-1920. While serving in the Ukrainian Army, he attended the School of Dramatic Art and participated in the Sadovsky Theatre in Kiev, Ukraine in 1917-18.

He founded the first school of Ukrainian dance in 1921 while interned in a Polish internment camp in Kalisz. During the years 1921-24, he organized performances and dance schools in western Ukraine, Czechoslovakia and Germany.

He immigrated to Canada in 1926 and continued to organize performances and dance schools in various Ukrainian communities in Canada and the United States. He directed numerous performances in Canada during the years 1926-28 including a spectacle at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto in 1926. He toured in over 30 performances with the Olexander Koshets Choir in the United States during the years 1928-1935. He also performed at the White House in Washington DC in 1935.

He embarked into motion picture production organizing his own film production company in 1936-37. He was involved in the production of Zaporozhets za Dunaiem, Natalka Poltavka, Marusia and other films and documentaries. During most of the war years he lived and worked in Hollywood, California. In 1946, he published Ukrainski Natsionalni Tanky, Muzyka i Strii/Ukrainian national dances, music and costumes/(Winnipeg). He organized his own dance studio in New York from 1952. He also toured Brazil and Argentina in 1951-52, Australia in 1961-62 and Israel in 1971-72.

Avramenko introduced Ukrainian communities in Canada and the United States the concept and practice of Ukrainian folk dance which became a uniquely North American phenomenon. He always attempted to present Ukrainian culture in a positive manner as part of the larger goal to remind the Ukrainian communities and the larger audience of the political situation in Ukraine. His style of dance and performance became identified as a major component of Ukrainian culture in Canada.

He died in New York City on 6 May 1981.

Finding aid:

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Textual records (Electronic) Finding aid is a file list for volumes 1-24. MSS2032 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000575.pdf

Photographs: (Paper) Vol. 1 (acc no. 1991-259 DAP) series level descriptions and locations. Located in 326 with a copy in Photo A&R. Reproductions of some of the photographs are available in the accession file. FA-257 (90: Open)

Moving images: (Electronic) Item level descriptions are available in the MINISIS database. (90: Open)

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General note:

Acquired between 1977 and 1979 from Vasile Avramenko, New York except for the movie posters which were received in 1989 from Mrs. G.R.B. Parchuk of Montreal, Quebec.

Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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(1976-11-01)
105-020000-4
106-020004-X
1977-0225 MISA
1977/0468
1977/0505
1978/0130
1979/0046
1989-475 DAP
1991-259 DAP
1994-296 DAP
317-89
91-125
91-221
93-308

Former archival reference no.:

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MG31-D87
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG31 D 87]

[Consultation 90 Open]

1--34;

[Consultation 90 Open]

40--41;

[Consultation 90 Open]

43--82;

[Consultation 90 Open]

85;

[Consultation 90 Open]

87--147;

[Consultation 90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 2032] 148

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Protective supervision is required during consultation.

Box [1989-475]

[Consultation 90 Open]

C042 Item no. assigned by LAC 1--9

[Consultation 90 Open]

Moving images (film)

[Consultation90 Open]

Moving images (video)

[Consultation90 Open]

Terms of use:

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Photographs: No restrictions. Copyright varies. See individual items. Copyright on items expires 50 years after production. Credit: name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / PA - .
Prints: No restrictions. Copyright unknown. Credit: National Archives of Canada.
Moving images: Reproduction and use in any form requires the written permission of Mr. Avramenko's estate.

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