 Kitka has been invited to return to Ukraine in Spring 2009 by the Les Kurbas Theatre in Lviv and the Kiev Mohylanka Theater Academy for performances of the Rusalka Cycle.The European premier of the piece will take place at the Giving Voice Festival produced by the Grotowski Institute in Wrocław, Poland.In 2000, Kitka received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation to launch the New Folksongs Commissioning Project, which engages American composers to write new works for the group.