competitions and festivals
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The creative characteristic of the folklore ensemble
DANA and CANAREIKA are situated in the Palace of Culture, Illichevsk city, Odessa region, Ukraine.
Director - Ivanova Nataliya Rostislavna
DANA was created in 1997.
CANAREIKA was organized in 2002.

The ensemble is awarded with a rank of "National amateur" for creative achievements in 2000.
The fundamental direction in a work of collective is national dance.
There are more than 100 persons of 4 age groups in the ensemble now.
DANA is conducting active concert activity, has a lot of original programs.
The ensemble took part in a lot folk festivals and competitions.

2008 March - The 6th Ukrainian Festival “Source of talents”, Donetsk – Ukraine
the 1st and the 2nd places
2007 December - The 3d International Folk Festival
“Young people make folklore”, Khmelnitsky – Ukraine
2007 July - International Folk Festival “Dorkovo 2007” – Bulgaria
2007 June - The 17th folk festival “Cheval-Musique-Tradition”,
Gere, Bretagne – France
2006 and the other years - the first place of the Ukrainian competition
of Folk Dance of Pavel Virskiy
2005 - International folk Festival "Vatra", Botoshany - Romania
2005 - Days of Ukraine in Italy, Roma - Italy
2002 - The 6th International Folk Festival "Guelder-rose on Dnipro",
Komsomoltsk na Dnepre – Russia
2002 - The 6th International Festival of folk dance in Bulgaria,
Sliven – Bulgaria
2002 2001 2000 - Regional competition of choreographic art
"The magic world of the dance" - the 1st place
2001 - International choreographic festival-competition "Cheerful rainbow",
Odessa – Ukraine
2001 2000 - "Old fortress", Kamenetsk -Podolskiy, the 1st place
2000 1999 - International children festival "We are the 21st century",
Albena – Bulgaria
1999 - International folk festival "Red Guelder-rose", Ternopol - Ukraine

Ensemble DANA became a member of UNESCO in 2005.

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