Natalka Polovynka
mezzo-soprano
Ukrainian singer, film and theater actress, teacher, film director. Natalka is a winner of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine.
She had studied at the Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy in the class of professor Maria Tarnavetska. Natalia Polovynka did an internship at the Jerzy Grotowski Workcenter (Pontedera, Italy). She performs Ukrainian traditional songs, ancient spiritual songs of Ukraine, and classical music.
Natalka is the author of a unique vocal methodology – she has conducted workshops at Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, Yale University (USA), University of Wales (UK) and the Jerzy Grotowski International Institute (Poland).
Natalka is an director of the ˮSlovo i Holosˮ (“Word and Voice”) theatrical center (Lviv).