Date: 17 April
Time: 7 – 9 PM
With: Katja Heitmann
Location: De Brandweer
How can we preserve movements that are in danger of extinction?
A choreography for the collarbone, a dance of belly button, belly fat and rib cage, the anatomy of a sigh. In September 2019, the German choreographer Katja Heitmann (1987) opens Museum Motus Mori with her dancers: a museum for the endangered movements. For six weeks, five hours a day, ten dancers take up the challenge of preserving dying movements. Every day they translate these into their bodies through choreographic sculptures. They zoom in on human motor skills and unravel them into anatomical patterns, structures, seemingly perpetual loops.
In this training session they take us into the process of creating this continuous moving exhibition.
Katja Heitmann
Katja Heitmann (1987, Hamburg/Germany) explores the intersections of dance, visual arts, performance and installation. With her team Katja creates performance-installations and theatrical exhibitions exploring the ambiguous question ‘Who (or what) moves who.’ In autumn 2019, Katja and her team created Museum Motus Mori at Marres, exposing the growing collection of endangered human movements. She gave a hint of what this will become in an extraordinary session of the Marres series Training the Senses session (Skins, October 2018). For an impression, click here. In 2016, Katja was awarded the Prize of the Dutch Dance Festival for outstanding choreographic talent.
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