What moves people? In RELIQUIEM, you experience other people's motivations in the most direct and insistent way possible: through your body. In an intimate ritual, you put yourself in the shoes of the archive's many contributors and incorporate their personal 'movement relics' into your movement repertoire. Katja calls this 'kinetic empathy'. What movement would you like to inherit?
 
In the multi-year art project Motus Mori, Katja Heitmann collects and preserves human movement. More than 1,900 people have already donated their personal movement to this embodied archive, based on which the choreographer creates new artworks each time. People from Maastricht also donated their movement to the Motus Mori. This fall, the choreographer returns with RELIQUIEM.

Art could not be more urgent. But besides urgent, RELIQUIEM is also very moving.

Katja Heitmann is fascinated by man's constant attempts to escape their own mortality. This paradox is the muse of the movement archive Motus Mori. As movement goes and perishes, man is both master of his own life and only a flake in eternity. With RELIQUIEM, Katja Heitmann takes the next step within her archival research; the creation of collectively shared movement heritage to secure it for the future. The archive will be transferred to "everyone. After all: doesn't everyone want to keep moving, for eternity?
 
This is an interactive performance where visitors themselves are in motion. 

This program is a collaboration of the Nederlandse Dansdagen, Bureau Europa and Marres.