Katja Heitmann Information

In her choreographic work she investigates what moves humans in the current age. In 2016 Katja won the Dutch Dance Festival Award (Prijs van de Nederlandse Dansdagen). Katja Heitmann's choreographic work comprises explicit estheticism, sharply contrasted by human fallibility. Her radically minimalist and minutely designed visual language confronts viewers with a frantic flood of insights. This distinct, perceptible tension returns in all her work. With her team Katja creates performance-installations and movement-exhibitions. Always departing from the questions 'Who (or what) moves humans?' we work in varied places from public spaces to theatres or musea. The coming years Katja Heitmann and her team will create a nomadic institute for movement heritage; Motus Mori . In Motus Mori they are going to collect, archive and exhibit the endangered human movement. By researching the personal movements of many individual people, the dancers' body (and mind) will become a living archive of all these human movements. By composing kinetic portraits in their bodies, the dancers will transmit the archived movement to the audience. Started in 2019, Motus Mori is a multiyear research on embodied knowledge and performing history, continuously presented in diverse performance formats; long durational movement exhibitions in musea, lecture performances in theatres, mobile movement laboratories in public spaces, personal movement- interviews with divers groups of people...