Double Bill:
Resistance movement + atlas da boca
DATe: 27th+28th of may
Time: 21.00
VENUE: BORA BORA
duration: 55 MINUTTER
Resistance movement
DAria koval & MACIEJ KUzMInSKI COMPANY (UA/PL)
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
In Resistance Movement, Ukrainian dancer Daria Koval, alongside Polish choreographer Maciej Kuźmiński, transforms her war encounter into a potent performance. Originating from Dnipro and caught in Kyiv as war erupted, Koval confidently confronts and repurposes her pain into hope and resilience.
In a 10-minutes solo “Resistance Movement”, a Ukrainian dancer Daria Koval documents her war experiences with powerful movement and fragile voice. The 27-year-old dancer Daria Koval comes from the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro. When the war began, she was in Kyiv. She thought she would never dance again. Now she dances about the war raging in Ukraine and hopes she can simply dance away the pain it leaves behind.
Resistance Movement was created by Daria Koval alongside internationally acclaimed Polish choreographer Maciej Kuzminski in October 2022 and has been already performed and awarded at several international choreographic competitions.
About the choreographer
Maciej Kuźmiński is a Polish-born, internationally commissioned choreographer, pedagogue and producer. A graduate of Trinity Laban Conservatory in London, he launched his choreographic career in 2014 and since then has worked as a guest choreographer with Staatstheater Kassel, Landestheater Linz, Theater Osnabrück, Scapino Ballet Rotterdam, Polish Dance Theatre, Theatre Regensburg Tanz, Šeiko Dance Company, and conservatoires like Codarts or ArtEZ. He also stages and produces independent performances with his own project-based Maciej Kuźmiński Company.
Kuźmiński develops his author method for movement and composition called Dynamic Phrasing, which is based on five pillars. In recent years he taught DP multiple times at ArtEZ, Codarts, PERA GAU, Belgrade Dance Institute and Dance Departament in Bytom, Poland.
CREDITS
Performance, testimony and voice: Daria Koval
Choreography: Maciej Kuzminski in collaboration with Daria Koval
Dramaturgy, lighting design: Maciej Kuzminski
Music: Max Richter, voice by Daria Koval, remixed by Maciej Kuzminski
Photos: Ralph Mohr
atlas da boca
braba plataforma (Por)
About the performance
Atlas da Boca explores two trans bodies through the mouth. As a symbol, the mouth becomes the interface between the public and the private, between the erotic and the political, between silence and the word that lasts.
Atlas da Boca discusses this symbolic space where the mouth becomes the interface between the public and the private, between the erotic and the political, between silence and the word that lasts. In these situations, the word becomes identity, affection, faith, and laughter. Like babies who discover the world by putting the world in their mouths: knowing the taste of the floor, the house keys, and their mother's hair. We grow up and the mouth becomes a place farther from the hand, more elaborate, sober and superb.
In this collection of words that move from mouth to mouth and mouth to inside, Ary and I allow ourselves to overflow with some words in a very horizontal and unpretentious relationship with the public. We both transitioned past the age of 30 and are now starting to experience/be other words and experience the world in new positions. Despite being two trans people, our path within the show tries to encompass portions “reduced on high heat” of the experiences that anyone can face when loving, losing and finding themselves with the unknown. The work asks about the words-gestures that we perform in the meetings, about the familiar and strange languages that pass through our body and about the moments in which the mouth stiffens, letting the word come out roaring. We have a curious insistence on our ability to hear with other parts of the body and with what the mouth tries to make eternal. We are like babies passing their mouths into existence and feeling some flavors for the first time.
“Atlas da Boca is a refreshing take on gender identity, which doesn’t resort to the usual autobiographical tropes. The poetry of de Medeiros’s writing appeals to the imagination, while the humanity of the performances gives us space to feel for them both”
“While the experience they are sharing with us is utterly personal, we all have a body and skin. The world certainly needs more of such generous, humbling and thought-provoking works”
“In a world where respect and understanding for the transgender community still has a mountain to climb, Atlas da boca is a beautiful celebration of bodies, humanity, difference and love”
