Every Minute Motherland
Every Minute Motherland — Where the Body Remembers What the News Forgets
Every Minute Motherland is a documentary dance performance created by choreographer Maciej Kuźmiński and dramaturg Paul Bargetto, developed in collaboration with a Polish-Ukrainian team of dancers, including refugee artists, and created in response to Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine.
Inspired by the personal stories of the dancers, the piece was built through extensive laboratory work and devised as a collective act of remembering, witnessing, and resistance. The war plays out daily in numbing repetition across screens—but here, attention returns to the bodies of the witnesses, where memory is stored in movement, silence, breath.
Every Minute Motherland is a documentary dance performance created by choreographer Maciej Kuźmiński and dramaturg Paul Bargetto, developed in collaboration with a Polish-Ukrainian team of dancers, including refugee artists, and created in response to Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine.
Inspired by the personal stories of the dancers, the piece was built through extensive laboratory work and devised as a collective act of remembering, witnessing, and resistance. The war plays out daily in numbing repetition across screens—but here, attention returns to the bodies of the witnesses, where memory is stored in movement, silence, breath.
Every Minute Motherland — Where the Body Remembers What the News Forgets
The choreography avoids theatrical drama. Instead, it turns to ritual, myth, and physical truth, moving from fractured gestures to a layered, communal presence. The performance asks: what does it mean to survive history inside your skin?
Every Minute Motherland premiered at Klub Żak in Gdańsk in 2022 and has since toured across Germany, Luxembourg, Lithuania, and in 2025 appeared at Festival de Liège, where it was received as both a haunting reflection and a fiercely beautiful act of political embodiment.
Accompanying the piece is the documentary short Fragments of Resilience, created by Anna Semenova, offering an intimate window into the process behind the performance.
The choreography avoids theatrical drama. Instead, it turns to ritual, myth, and physical truth, moving from fractured gestures to a layered, communal presence. The performance asks: what does it mean to survive history inside your skin?
Every Minute Motherland premiered at Klub Żak in Gdańsk in 2022 and has since toured across Germany, Luxembourg, Lithuania, and in 2025 appeared at Festival de Liège, where it was received as both a haunting reflection and a fiercely beautiful act of political embodiment.
Accompanying the piece is the documentary short Fragments of Resilience, created by Anna Semenova, offering an intimate window into the process behind the performance.
Every Minute Motherland was produced in collaboration with Maciej Kuzminski Company for the 2022 Teatr Polska Program that toured cities throughout Poland.
Contributors Include
Contributors Include
Choreography, lighting, and music edit: Maciej Kuźmiński
Assistant choreographer: Monika Witkowska
Dramaturgy: Paul Bargetto
Documentary and photos: Anna Semenova
Production: Polina Bulat, Maciej Kuźmiński
Video documentation: Paweł Szymkowiak, Aleksander Joachimiak
Original cast & creation:
Original cast & creation:
Daria Koval, Anna Myloslavska, Vitaliia Vaskiv, Anastasia Ivanova,
Monika Witkowska, Szymon Tur, Omar Karabulut, Judyta Pakulska
What the Critics Said
What the Critics Said
“Land without time, life without land... Despite the expressive scenes, the performance is not depressing. It is the kind of feeling that allows you to experience catharsis in the theater.”
— Justyna Stanisławska, taniecpolska.pl
“Land without time, life without land... Despite the expressive scenes, the performance is not depressing. It is the kind of feeling that allows you to experience catharsis in the theater.”
— Justyna Stanisławska, taniecpolska.pl
“Land without time, life without land... Despite the expressive scenes, the performance is not depressing. It is the kind of feeling that allows you to experience catharsis in the theater.”
— Justyna Stanisławska, taniecpolska.pl
“Horrific in statement, frighteningly beautiful in artistic execution.”
— Helmut Jasny, Westfälische Nachrichten
“A meditation on mourning. Everything remains incomprehensible and at the same time directly touching.”
— Torben Ibs, tanznetz.de
“Horrific in statement, frighteningly beautiful in artistic execution.”
— Helmut Jasny, Westfälische Nachrichten
“A meditation on mourning. Everything remains incomprehensible and at the same time directly touching.”
— Torben Ibs, tanznetz.de
“Horrific in statement, frighteningly beautiful in artistic execution.”
— Helmut Jasny, Westfälische Nachrichten
“A meditation on mourning. Everything remains incomprehensible and at the same time directly touching.”
— Torben Ibs, tanznetz.de