8 till 13 August 2023

Motus Mori: RELIQUIEM

Katja Heitmann | NL/DE

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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. 

Location Tuin Sint Janskathedraal
Running time 75 min.
Genre Installatie/beeldende kunst

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 Volkskrant

Combiticket

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.

Credits

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

Theaterfestival Boulevard thanks:
  • Gemeente 's-Hertogenbosch
  • Provincie Noord-Brabant
  • Fonds Podiumkunsten
  • Brabant C
  • VSBfonds
  • Fonds21
  • BankGiro Loterij
  • Cultuurfonds
  • Creative Europe Programme (EU)
  • De Versterking
  • Verkadefabriek
  • Theater aan de Parade
  • Apap
  • Performing Gender
  • Feminist Futures