Katja Heitmann - Motus Mori: MUSEUM
About this activity.
Katja Heitmann is fascinated by the human attempt to escape their own mortality. This paradox is the muse of the movement archive Motus Mori. In MUSEUM, dancers are the archive. For two weeks they will collect personal movements from Groningen. Based on these interviews, the dancers will make personal portraits of the Groningers.
These portraits, kept in motion for five hours a day, can then be seen in the Grand Theatre during the season opening. This exhibition of choreographic portraits presents an impressive and poignant picture of humanity. You might find yourself in this archive, or recognize someone you know?
“Kinetic empathy at its best.” - De Standaard, BE
“The archive is our body” - New York Times, USA
“.... one of the most impressive exhibitions I have ever visited” - Tubelight
“The beauty and vulnerability of dance in one thoughtful concept.” - NRC
“... more direct, effective and poignant than any video, photo or text can ever be.” - Museumtijdschrift
“An intriguing, original project.” - de Volkskrant
Donate your movement
For Motus Mori: MUSEUM we are looking for the movement of ‘Groningen’. Would you like your movement to become part of the archive? Please sign up for a 'movement interview' with one of our dancers. Based on your donation, the dancer will create a personal 'dance portrait' that will become part of the exhibition. Sign up via: motusmori@katjaheitmann.com
About Motus Mori
Anyone who studies the archives of mankind sees a one-sided image of humanity; one that is focused on measurability. We reduce humans to comparable data, to categorizable differences. But is this how we want to be remembered?
Choreographer Katja Heitmann (DE 1987) wants to write a different history. She wants to preserve the most essential, paradoxical and elusive of human beings: 'going and going-away'; an archive for movement. In Motus Mori: MUSEUM dancers are the archive. They will collect the movement of 'Groningen’. Based on these movement interviews, the dancers will make personal portraits of the Groningers. Together with portraits from other cities these will be shown in an impressive and poignant exhibition of humanity.
Since 2019, more than 1,500 people have already donated their personal movement to the multi-year art project Motus Mori, an ever-growing foundation from which the choreographer creates new artworks.
Grand Theatre.
In een dynamische combinatie van presenteren en produceren wordt samen met kunstenaars, partners en publiek gezocht naar nieuwe gedachten, verbanden en werkwijzen. Vanuit een blijvende passie voor theater, dans, muziek en muziektheater stelt het podium zich open voor de stad als plek voor artistieke en maatschappelijke betekenisgeving in een voortdurend veranderende wereld.
Location.
Grand Theatre
Grote Markt 35
tel 06 436 000 93
www.grandtheatregroningen.nl