When: 13 July | 10:30-12:00
Where: Vondelkerk, Amsterdam
Tickets: €15 (get your ticket online here)
Language: English
Deadline: Limited spots available, please secure your spot before 5 July.
Level: Open for everyone (professional and amateurs) aged 16 and above who is interested in exploring the body and movement.
Teacher: Ornella Prieto, dancer/movement archivist with Motus Mori since 2019.
What moves humankind? In the multi-year art project Motus Mori, Katja Heitmann collects and preserves human movement. Since 2019, more than 2000 people have already donated their personal movement to this embodied archive, an ever-growing foundation from which the choreographer creates new artworks.
Join us for an immersive workshop where you will get a physical insight into the Motus Mori movement archive. Learn the basics of the unique movement language of Motus Mori. How can you become more aware of your own movements and bodily characteristics? How do you embody the movements of some’body’ else? And how can you inherit those movements into your own body? Experience firsthand and in your own body what it means to be a movement archivist!
About Katia Heitmann
Katja Heitmann (1987, DE) is fascinated by the human attempt to escape their own mortality. This paradox is the muse of the movement archive Motus Mori. Katja Heitmann's choreographic work consists of extreme aesthetics, in sharp contrast to human fallibility. Her minimalistic and minutely designed imagery confronts viewers with a frantic flood of insights. As a choreographic sculptor, Katja is constantly searching for the core of her material. The universal character of her work makes it possible for anyone who wants to find their own entrance to the work. In 2016 Katja was awarded the Prize of the Dutch Dance Festival. In 2020 she was honored with the prestigious Gieskes Strijbis Podium-award, Netherlands' largest performing arts award.
The performance Motus Mori MUSEUM by Katja Heitmann is part of Julidans x WhyNot: OFF VENUE 2024. Read more here.