Seven dancers stand on stage dressed in earth tones. Their movements appear hesistant and gentle, then angular and almost machine-like, before flowing into a soft and tender form of expression again.
‘Every Minute Motherland’ by the Polish choreographer Maciej Kuźmiński is about fleeing from Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. Working together with his company and Ukrainian dancers in exile, Kuźmiński uses the language of dance to find a way of expressing what cannot be put into words: the war as a turning point that completely derails people’s lives.
Trauma, exile and alienation, lost identities. The piece focusses attention on the bodies and experiences of the witnesses while the war plays out every day on TV and social media in numbingly repetitive fashion.
Every minute their thoughts return to the country that they were forced to flee from and to the people they left behind. Loss and pain are communicated with a gentle expressive power, through small gestures that reveal the full dimensions of the tragedy.
A “Meet the Artists” will take place after the performance.
Credit: Przemysław Jendroska
Choreographie Maciej Kuźmiński
Assistant Choreographer Monika Witkowska
Dramaturgy Paul Bargetto
Performance and Co-Creation Daria Koval, Anna Myloslavska, Monika Witkowska, Vitaliia Vaskiv, Szymon Tur, Marcelina Jasińska, Maciej Kuźminski
Production Maciej Kuźmiński, Polina Bulat
Das Projekt wird von der Maciej Kuźmiński Company in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Klub ŽAK in Gdańsk (Projektaufenthalt/Premiere 2022), Materia Lodź (Przestrzenie Sztuki-Programm), der Stiftung Creators for Ukraine (initiiert von CIAS und ZAIKS) und dem Ukrainischen Institut durchgeführt. Das Programm Przestrzenie Sztuki wird vom Minister für Kultur und Nationales Erbe finanziert und vom Nationalen Institut für Musik und Tanz und dem Theaterinstitut von Zbigniew Raszewski durchgeführt. Operator: Materia. Partner: die Musikakademie von Grażyna und Kiejstut Bacewicz in Lodz, die städtische Kulturzone, das Kunstzentrum und das Büro der Stadt Lodz.
Currently there are no upcoming performances of this Program.