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The Superpower leaders left Iceland this weekend without moving their nations noticeably closer to peace.
幾個大國的領導人本周末離開了冰島，而和平進程會絲毫沒有進展。
But at the same time another interaction between Americans and Soviet citizens was just getting started in the USSR.
但與此同時，美國和蘇聯之前的另一次交鋒才剛剛開始。
It is a meeting of Northern people, an Arctic attempt at understanding.
這是北部人民的會面，旨在達成北極圈范圍內的相互理解。
From Anchorage, reporter Joanna Urick has more on the Alaska Performing Arts for Peace.
下面請聽我臺記者喬安娜·尤里克為您從安克雷奇帶回的有關阿拉斯加和平藝術表演的報道。
Before Leaving for the Soviet Union, sixty Alaskans from throughout the state gathered in a log cabin on a lake outside of Anchorage to rehearse.
在動身前往蘇聯之前，60名阿拉斯加州表演人員聚集在安克雷奇外一個湖面的小木屋上排練。
"I see people from Moscow. I see people from Leningrad."
“我看到來自莫斯科和列寧格勒的人來了。”
As John Pingyer, a Upic Eskimo reads his lines, he's thinking about an ancient Upic ceremony called "the Bladder Festival,"
一位名叫約翰的愛斯基摩人讀著自己的臺詞，他腦海里想到了一個古老的儀式，名為“膀胱節”，
in which people from different villages gather together.
這個節日是各個村莊聚集在一起的節日。
At the end of the week-long rituals they take the bladders from seals their hunters have taken during the past year and inflate them so they'll float.
儀式長達一周之久，尾聲時，愛斯基摩人會將獵人過去一年來從海豹身上取下的膀胱充氣，這樣就會漂浮起來。
Then they return the seal bladders to the ocean. "There's a lot of symbolism behind the ceremony.
然后他們會將這些膀胱放到大海里去，儀式背后有很多象征含義。
And one of the strongest symbolism that we're using in this Bladder Festival is....togetherness of people,
有關膀胱節最強烈的一個象征含義就是：人的團結，
as one part of one big village or a community, and then we use it to portray the closeness of people, which is the peace."
我們把這一點作為一個大村莊或者一個大社群的組成部分，用它來描繪人與人之間的親近，所以它代表著和平。”
The Bladder Festival forms the dramatic framework for a show involving more than sixty people from Alaska.
膀胱節是這場阿拉斯加60人表演節目的根本框架。
The Alaska Performing Arts for Peace will take their show through a succession of cities,
阿拉斯加和平藝術表演會在蘇聯的多個城市、
towns and villages in the Soviet Union, culminating in the reunification of Siberian Upic Eskimos,
鎮縣、村莊連續進行，最后會以西伯利亞愛斯基摩人重聚的方式升華，
people who have lived along the coast of the Bering Sea, until the Cold War moving freely back and forth between the continents.
這些愛斯基摩人都住在白令海沿岸，后來由于兩個大陸之間爆發冷戰而開始遷徙。
At times, they can see one another hunting on the ice,
有時候，他們會看到對方在冰上狩獵，
but actual contact has been forbidden since the coming of military installations following World War II.
但彼此卻沒有實際接觸，因為二戰之后，就有了軍事防備。
The Alaska villages of Wonga on St. Lawrence Island is actually closer to Siberia than to the US mainland.
圣勞倫斯島上的阿拉斯加村莊離西伯利亞的距離比離美國大陸更近。
Seventy-year-old Aura Gologrogin, who accompanies the Wonga comedy players on the tour,
70歲的奧拉一直陪同著戲劇團的表演人員，
remembers the last time she visited friends and relatives on the Siberian coast.
她依然記得最后一次看望西伯利亞海岸線上親朋故友的場景。
She's looking forward to meeting them again.
她很期待能與他們再次相逢。
"Yeh, it is like a big family reunion. I was thinking if I could meet some of the people that I know long time ago,
“沒錯，這就是一場大家庭的重逢。我一直在想是否可以再見故友，
since I have been there when I was younger.
畢竟那我還年輕的時候認識的人。”
In 1940 I go over and stay there for nine days and they were so nice people. And I want to meet them again."
1940年，我曾在那里待過9天，那里的人都很好。我很想再見他們。”
This tour is not just an Eskimo reunion. Along with some thirty Eskimos are chorus, cloggers, fiddlers and black gospel singers.
這次跟團不只是愛斯基摩人的重逢。跟表演團一起的還有近30名合唱團成員、木屐匠、小提琴手、黑人福音歌手。
"Each culture has something unique to offer, and that's what we have here.
“每個文化都有自己的獨特之處，而這就是我們這里的獨特之處。
Each culture has something unique to offer, and that uniqueness will be pulled together as one.
每個文化都有自己的獨特之處，而這獨特之處最終會合而為一。
And that one body is what we are sharing with the Soviet Union."
而那個“一”就是我們蘇聯民眾共同分享的財富。
Shirley Staten is one of five gospel singers from Anchorage looking forward to another reunion with the small group of Russians,
雪莉·斯塔恩來自安克雷奇，是5名福音歌手之一。他很期待再次與這一小撥蘇聯人一起，
descendants of Black Americans who emigrated to Moscow during the Depression.
他們都是美國大蕭條期間遷徙到莫斯科的美國黑人后裔。
"And we're going to sit around and sing gospel music, and I am just....I mean that's the highlight of the trip."
“我們會圍坐在一起，共唱福音音樂，這是我此行最愛的部分。”
"We are going to sing in chorus. Then we can start together in Russian. It seems like that's the way it's going to work."
“我們會在合唱團里合唱，然后一起展開此行。仿佛這就是蘇聯之行的正確打開方式。”
Organizer Digby Belger says it's taken two difficult years to make the tour of the Alaska Performing Artists for Peace a reality.
主辦方迪格比·貝爾格表示，歷時兩年，經過艱難努力，阿拉斯加和平藝術表演才得以成行。
And in that time, there have been dramatic ups and downs in US-Soviet relations.
而且就在這期間，美國和蘇聯的關系也時好時壞。
"In some way, this might be a nice time to go.
“從某個方面來看，這可能是成行的絕好機會。
And you know, if.....I really feel that the more tension between us, the more that we really need to communicate.
你懂的，如果，我真地覺得，彼此之間越是劍拔弩張，就越應該交流。
And people to people exchange is a very good way to do that."
民間交流就是一個很好的方式。
The Alaska Performing Artists for Peace's month-long tour
阿拉斯加和平藝術表演為期一個月，
will take them from Moscow in the west to the Chukchi Peninsula in the east coast of Siberia.
期間，會去往從西部的莫斯科到西伯利亞西海岸的楚克奇半島。
They'll return to the United States November 2nd. In Anchorage, this is Joanna Urich.
11月2日，他們將重返美國。這里是喬安娜·尤里克為您從安克雷奇發回的報道。
