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Рух Oпору | Ruch Oporu | Resistance Movement
Maciej Kuźmiński Company

"My name is Daria Koval, I am 27 years old, I am from Dnipro city in the East of Ukraine. When the war started I was in Kyiv. [...] I thought that I would never dance again, because I realized that dancing is nothing important anymore [...] Every time I dance about the war in my country I hope that maybe once I will not feel this pain anymore, that I will dance everything out..."

In Resistance Movement Maciej Kuźmiński works closely with a refugee dancer from Ukraine Daria Koval, documenting her experience of war in voice and movement.

“For me this work is very important, because I wanted to tell about the war from my own perspective and share my personal story”, says Daria Koval. Her intention coincided with the one of Maciej Kuzminski, who felt that he should make “a direct statement from a concrete person, because war is not virtual, but affects real individuals”.

performance, original creation, testimony: Daria Koval
choreography, light, costume, sound: Maciej Kuźmiński