Affirmation in a time of violence and resistance: Kurbasy channels contemporary connections to an archaic past with its time-bending Songs of the Ukrainian Forest.

Kurbasy

Wharton Center for Performing Arts

Born from Lviv’s progressive Les Kurbas Theatre, Kurbasy channels ancient Ukrainian folklore through tight vocal harmonies, spectral instrumentation, and striking visual storytelling. Their performances are living rituals, weaving lullabies, calendar songs, and myths into a soundscape where past and present collide. 

Their latest work, Songs of the Ukrainian Forest, emerged in the shadow of invasion—a 14-song cycle tracing Ukraine’s landscapes and histories, sung in dialects that echo its shifting borders. This is music as a declaration: of freedom, of identity, of a culture that refuses to be silenced.

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