Maciej Kuzminski & Vladyslav Detiuchenko - Light in Darkness
Janskerk | Danskerk
The iconic Sint Janskerk on the Vrijthof square will transform into a Dance Church for one day. In this peaceful and quiet location, you will find an almost magical place where dance can be experienced in its purest form. Without illusion, decor or theatre lighting.
As an audience, you are close to the dance floor, on the skin of the dancers. So close that the smallest details become visible, and you feel the dancers in all their humanity and vulnerability crawl under your own skin.
You will experience work by artists to whom the far-reaching war in Ukraine has become an important part of their lives. Vladyslav Detiuchenko and Veronika Rakitina both fled from Kyiv to The Hague at the beginning of the war. With their projects (including with Igone de Jongh, Korzo and the Stuttgart Ballet), they continue to draw attention to the tragedy that has impacted their country for more than two years. Maciej Kuzminski recently settled in Rotterdam and in 2022 created the moving Every Minute Motherland, in which Polish and Ukrainian dancers release their wartime experience on stage, reaching for the spirit of ritual and myth.
PROGRAMMA
Vladyslav Detiuchenko & Veronika Rakitina
LIGHT IN DARKNESS
Light in Darkness is the true story experienced by Veronika and Vladyslav. As they take the stage, they relive those moments again and again, full of courage and faith, but also impacted by the fear of the unknown and the fight for life. War deprives people from seeing their loved ones, family and friends. They cannot hug them, cannot feel their warmth - there is a wall between them, separating them. The war continues.
Maciej Kuzminski
EVERY MINUTE MOTHERLAND
Every Minute Motherland 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 winessess, whose experiences will be released on stage transcribed in motion and time and reaching for the spirit of ritual and myth.
PHOTOGRAPHY
EVERY MINUTE MOTHERLAND: Dajana Lothert
LIGHT IN DARKNESS: Altin Kaftira
