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“Eternal Return” is a duet dance performance by Ukrainian artists Rita Lira and Daria Koval exploring cycles in nature and human history, with a particular focus on the recurring nature of war.
Inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche’s concept of “eternal return,” the work brings together contemporary dance, scientific theory, visual art, and documentary material. Through repetition, reversal, improvisation, and ritual, the performers examine how personal and collective histories repeat across generations.
The performance seeks to transform dance into a ritual for breaking destructive cycles and imagining a different, more hopeful future.
Rita Lira & Daria Koval are Ukrainian contemporary dance artists, choreographers, and performers whose practices explore personal and collective experiences through movement.
Daria Koval is a Ukrainian contemporary dance artist, choreographer, and performer whose practice unfolds at the intersection of choreography, documentary storytelling, and somatic research. Originally from Dnipro, Ukraine, her work investigates how political systems, and collective memory become embodied through movement, language, gesture, and physical behavior.
Following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, her artistic focus shifted toward themes of trauma, migration, identity reconstruction, and the body as a political and emotional archive. Her works have been presented internationally across festivals, residencies, and interdisciplinary platforms throughout Europe.
@dara_koval
Rita Lira is a Ukrainian choreographer, performer, and artist working at the intersection of contemporary dance, street dance, performance, and visual art. She has been teaching dance for over ten years and has led workshops in France, Italy, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine.
Her movement practice combines contemporary dance and street dance techniques, with a particular focus on popping, conscious movement, and improvisation. In her workshops, Rita explores waving, gliding, and the continuity and of movement flow, as well as body control and isolation. Through movement research and improvisational tasks, participants develop greater awareness and precision in their bodies while discovering new possibilities for movement.
The practice is open to dancers from different backgrounds and styles, offering tools that can be integrated into and expand their individual movement language.
@ritalira.official
choreography: Rita Lira & Daria Koval
dancers: Rita Lira & Daria Koval
visual artist: Sébastien Mercier
visual artist and technical director: Fabrice Starzinskas
composer and sound artist: Yana Shliabanska
physics / scientific consultant: Dmytro Zharov
duration: 33 min
recommended age: all ages
notice: strobe lighting
Co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund – a state earmarked fund, as part of the “Dance” programme, implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance.
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30 PLN
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Duration:
33 minutes
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Main Auditorium
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