DOUBLE EVENING. Dance film „Fragments of Resilience” / Anna Semenova (Ukraine). Dance performance „Every Minute Motherland“ / Maciej Kuźmiński Company (Poland-Ukraine)
18.00 – Dance film „Fragments of Resilience” / Maciej Kuźmiński company (Poland-Ukraine)
18.30 – Dance performance „Every Minute Motherland“ / Maciej Kuźmiński company (Poland-Ukraine)
Choreography, lighting design, music edit: Maciej Kuźmiński
Dramaturgy: Paul Bargetto
Assistant choreographer: Monika Witkowska
Photos, documentary film: Anna Semenova
Video recording, editing: Paweł Szymkowiak, Aleksander Joachimiak
Production: Polina Bulat, Maciej Kuźmiński
Creation & original cast: Daria Koval, Anna Myloslavska, Vitaliia Vaskiv, Anastasia Ivanova,
Monika Witkowska, Szymon Tur, Omar Karabulut, Judyta Pakulska (intern)
Performance: Daria Koval, Anna Myloslavska, Vitaliia Vaskiv, Anastasia Ivanova,
Monika Witkowska, Szymon Tur, Maciej Kuźmiński, Judyta Pakulska (2nd cast)
Premiere: 25 August 2022, Klub Żak, Gdańsk, Poland
Produced by Maciej Kuźmiński Company within the project residency /premiere 2022 Klub Żak in partnership with Materia Łódź (Przestrzenie Sztuki program), Creators for Ukraine foundation (founded by CIAS and ZAIKS) and Ukrainian Institute.
The Przestrzenie Sztuki program is financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance and the Theater Institute of Zbigniew Raszewski. Operator: Materia, partners: the Music Academy of Grażyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz in Lodz, the City Culture Zone, Art Center and the City of Lodz Office.
Location: @Klaipėda drama theater (Teatro str. 2, Klaipėda)
Performance duration: 55 min.
Film duration: 25 min.
RECOMMENDED for those who support Ukraine and its people
Critiques corner**
“The piece was as oppressive as it was fascinating. (…) Horrific in statement, frighteningly beautiful in artistic execution.” Helmut Jasny, Westfälische Nachrichten / “The dance painting by Maciej Kuźmiński reminds us of how real and close the experience of war can be - a total experience that permeates time, the space around us, our bodies and minds.” Justyna Stanisławska, taniecpolska.pl / „Land without time, life without land. The choreography avoids clear descriptions and drama but relies on the wisdom of sensitive and multifaceted dance, on the superbly attuned group and the audience's ability to observe and empathize with every minute.” Melanie Suchy, TanzWeb NRW
Every Minute Motherland is a dance performance created by Maciej Kuzminski and devised using documentary methods in response to the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine and the refugee crisis that followed it. The performance was made with a Polish-Ukrainian team including refugees in collaboration with the dramaturg Paul Bargetto.
The piece is inspired by the personal stories of the dancers and based on extensive laboratory work. It explores the effects of trauma, exile, and alienation set against larger themes of war, identity, and the immovable forces of history and geography. With the constant daily background of television and social media where the war plays out in numbing repetition, the piece refocuses our attention on the bodies of the witnesses, whose experiences will be released on stage transcribed in motion and time and reaching for the spirit of ritual and myth.
From Mariupol to Kharkhiv, and everywhere else the war has come, culture and artists have been made deliberate targets in an attempt to destroy Ukrainian nation. This project is an act of resistance to these crimes and a statement of solidarity with Ukraine.
Maciej Kuźmiński is a freelance Polish choreographer creating since 2014. His works are described as pure, with grounded, dynamic movement, and revolve around existential and philosophy concepts. The artist's creations have been presented over 400 times in 23 countries, gradually gaining international recognition.
The artist has choreographed for companies like Hessisches Staatsballett, Landestheater Linz, Staatstheater Kassel or Polish Dance Theatre among others. His independent pieces made for Maciej Kuźmiński Company have received more than 30 awards for choreography, making Kuźmiński one of the most often awarded Polish dance creator.
https://eng.maciejkuzminski.com/
Festival is supported by #Lietuvoskultūrostaryba, #Klaipėdosmiestosavivaldybė
