Motus Mori: RELIQUIEM
Katja Heitmann | NL/DE
In 2021, Katja Heitmann was already a guest on Boulevard with her project Motus Mori. Visitors and residents of the city donated their personal movements to her archive of movements. With Motus Mori: RELIQUIEM, Katja Heitmann takes the next step: the movements from her archive are transferred to the public.
You remember your loved ones by their typical movements. Since 2019, around 1500 people have already donated their personal movements to the archive of the Motus Mori project. The Motus Mori dancers have carefully documented facial expressions, postures and gestures of residents of care homes, festival visitors, children, people with a physical impairment and the homeless through drawings and choreographies. From that collection of movements, Katja Heitmann made a new moving performance in which you place yourself into the bodies of these donors. Which movement would you like to inherit?
Motus Mori: RELIQUIEM is a personal, physical and auditory experience. At the start of the performance, you will be given headphones and at various times you will be asked to sit, stand or walk.
“Heitmann is turning our everyday gestures in to art.”
The New York Times“Katja Heitmann tries to classify people's unique motor skills. An intriguing, original project.”
★★★★ - De VolkskrantCombiticket
You can buy a combiticket for this performance in combination with 71BODIES / Daniel Mariblanca - A True Story on Sunday 13 August.
Click here to buy this combiticket.Concept/artistic direction/libretto Katja Heitmann
Concept/music/dramaturgy Sander van der Schaaf
Interviews/editing Eva Geia Huisman, Josefine Patzelt, Wies Berkhout, Moene Roovers, Ornella Prieto. Eleni Ploumi, Karolien Wauters
Artistic advice Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink, Marijn Meijles, Jan Ruts
Scenography Taciser Sevinc
Photography Hanneke Wetzer
International Developement Fanny Martin | Art of festivals
Coproducer SPRING, Korzo, December Dance, tanzhausNRW