“Traces of Time”

site-specific performance

May 29, 2025, University of Gdansk Campus

Time: 4.15 pm

Start of the performance: in front of the UG Library

Choreography: prof. Nigel Stewart, dr. Katarzyna Pastuszak

Performed by: Adrianna Bonusiak, Magdalena Borowska, Maja Chazan, Barbara Herbasz, Kacper Koj, Natalia Rutkowska, Agata Szpakowska, Matylda Śliwińska, Anna Witkowska, Maria Wojtan

Duration: 40 min.

“Traces of Time” is an outdoor dance performance prepared under the direction of Nigel Stewart and Katarzyna Pastuszak with the participation of students of the University of Gdansk. The performance was created especially for the “Metamorphoses and Time” Conference and the 55th anniversary of the University of Gdansk.

The choreography of “Traces of Time,” based on 12/8 rhythm, draws attention to time through repetitive gestures and a looped form that increasingly destabilizes the linear notion of time. In this way, the performance also seeks to redefine what we mean by collective responsibility (response-ability) and effort, developing in each dancer a kinesthetic ability to respond to the group.