In October 2006, Mariana Sadovska went, together with the Swedish performer Anna Lindlblom and German percussionist and composer Peter Kahlenborn, to the expedition to Lapland searching for the phenomenon of joik songs – the traditional Sami singing form coming from the Stone Ages.
Joik is an essence, it is a soul. It is not singing about something or someone. Through the music, the joiker´s task is to identify himself/herself with someone or something. Joik is used to „remember“ people, animals and landscapes. Joik is used as a lullaby for children, as a confession of love, as an offer to marry.
The three musicians coming from different musical backgrounds create a completely new context for this phenomenon. Voices, sounds and percussion fuse on stage, opening thus new musical horizons between the ancient joik and contemporary music.

Performing Mariana Sadovska /Ukraine, Germany – vocal, Anna Lindlblom /Sweden – vocal, Peter Kahlenborn /Germany – percussion

Sometimes a musician has such an inborn desire to communicate that her message naturally becomes universal: it doesn´t matter whether she is singing soul or bel canto or folk. Such is the case with the Ukrainian singer Mariana Sadovska.
Ben Ratliff, New York Times

… never heard before, electrifying, by far the most outstanding stage presence.
Jury of Festival creole NRW, Germany

Mariana Sadovska. Ukrainian singer, musician, actress and composer was born in Lvov and now lives in Koln upon the Rhine, Germany.
Her concerts and theatrical performances were applauded by the audiences in New York (LaMama Theatre, Joe´s Pub, Macor, BAM, Galapagos and Exit Art Gallery), she was a guest at Giving Voice Festival in Wales, Moon Festival in Japan… In Poland, she is known mainly because of her involvement with the famous theatrical ensemble Gardzienice. She has taught at Harvard, at Princeton, at the University of New York, at Iron Theatre (U.S.A), at Grotowski Centre (Poland), at Royal Shakespeare Company (Great Britain) and elsewhere. In 1998, she was awarded as the best actress by the Polish theatrical association. In 1991, she participated in the Slavic Pilgrim project under the leadership of Jerzy Grotowski (Pondetera, Italy) and worked at Laboratorium of Theatre Art (A. Vasiljev, Moscow). She released several CDs. In our country, she is known thanks to the successful concert Voices of the East, and because of her nomination for Alfred Radok´s Prize in 2005.
Her musical and theatrical work is always inspired by the authentic cultures of different countries. She intends to bridge the gap between ancient, traditional sounds and the sounds of our present times.