Dance
Katja Heitmann
MOTUS MORI MUSEUM
concept and choreography Katja Heitmann
with Eleni Ploumi, Ornella Prieto, Anton van der Sluis, Adina Ternström, Julia Drittij
music Sander van der Schaaf
artistic assistant Moene Roovers
co-production tanzhaus nrw (DE), Marres house for contemporary culture (NL), STRP Festival for art and technology (NL), DansBrabant (NL)
movement coach Wies Berkhout
artistic advice Christina Flick, Ingrid de Rond, Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink
video and photography Hanneke Wetzer
performers and movement-archivists Wies Berkhout, Eleni Ploumi, Ornella Prieto, Julia Drittij, Lea Christensen, Rebecca Collins, Karolien Wauters, Manou Koreman, Twan van Diest, Adina Ternström, Merle Schiebergen, Anne Roeper, Leanne Hekkert, Dorothea Mende, Rachel Rijsdijk, Cynthia Verpoorten, Myrthe Marchal, Ines Pona, Clara Grosjean, Youri Peters, Anton van der Sluis, Emiel Sanders
co-production tanzhaus nrw (DE), Marres house for contemporary culture (NL), STRP Festival for art and technology (NL), DansBrabant (NL)
partners Spring Performing Arts Festival (NL), Theaterfestival Boulevard (NL), December Dance Brugge (BE), CaDance/ Korzo (NL), Theater De Nieuwe Vorst (NL), Arcadia Leeuwarden (NL), International Dance Theatres festival/ Centrum Kultury Lublin (PL), Grand Theatre Groningen (NL)
with the support of Fonds Podiumkunsten, Provincie Noord Brabant, Gemeente Tilburg, Grensverleggers-De Buren, Bündnis Internationaler Produktionshäuser, Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, Stichting Dioraphte
A performance installation created to archive human movements before they disappear. Four dancers embody gestures collected from people encountered at each stage of the project: a long-term process that aims to share the most elusive part of our humanity.
Katja Heitmann is a German choreographer based in the Netherlands. In 2016 she received the prestigious Dutch Dance Festival Prize in Maastricht. In 2020 she was awarded the Gieskes Strijbis Podium Prize.
durational performance: spectators may attend for as long as they see fit
non-verbal show
national premiere
