PHOTO: © Hanneke Wetzer

Motus Mori RELIQUIEM

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Motus Mori RELIQUIEM
Katja Heitmann
Participatory performance

Which movements would you like to pass on so they don't get lost? Since 2019, more than 1,500 people have already donated personal gestures or movements to Heitmann's living archive "Motus Mori". Choreographer Katja Heitmann, who works in the Netherlands, is constantly creating new works of art based on this archive.

In her performance RELIQUIEM, we experience other people's movements in a direct and haunting way, namely through our own bodies. In an intimate ritual, we can experience the movements of the archive's many donors ourselves and incorporate them into our own repertoire. This creates an exchange that is both touching and almost magical, which Heitmann calls kinetic empathy. RELIQUIEM creates a collective, shared legacy of movement in order to secure this for the future.

Katja Heitmann's project has been enthusiastically received all over the world. The New York Times reported extensively and summarized: "Turning the gestures of everyday life into art." The Dutch online magazine theaterkrant.nl said: "Art could not be more urgent." Heitmann creates works of art that are filled with deep humanity in their calm and sensitive manner.

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reduced 7 Euro (plus fees)

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