Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Yara Arts Group is a resident company at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York. Established in 1990, Yara is a collective of artists of Asian, African, Latino, Eastern and Western European ancestry, who come together to create original work based on traditional material from often-overlooked Eastern cultures. The artists bring together fragments of plays, poems, songs, myths and historical sources to create original work that is reflective of the culture they explore. The group has created 20 original theatre pieces based on extensive research in Eastern Europe, Siberia and Asia in Yara''s signature style of: multilingual dialogue and songs supported by evocative visuals and documentation.