CORPUS

Photo © Hanneke Wetzer

What does it mean to have a body?

In partnership with Leeds Art Gallery and Yorkshire Dance, Katja has created a moving performance-ritual with people in Leeds who have a heightened awareness of how they move because of age or physical condition. CORPUS zooms in on the transfer of embodied knowledge to a communal body. In this embodied knowledge lies the basis for kinetic empathy. You are invited to experience how our bodies hold deep knowledge of our memories and emotions in this moving, intimate performance of slowed-down gestures.

Credits

Premièred in Leeds (UK) 8-10 December 2023

Choreography & concept: Katja Heitmann
Music, creative production: Sander van der Schaaf
Artistic assistants and performance: Eleni Ploumi, Julia Drittij, Ornella Prieto, Ida Osten, Anton van der Sluis
Performance: Sonja Miller, Lara Woodhouse, Philip Harvey, Marion Small, Kath Morgan-Thompson, Tamsin Spain, Helen Thompson, Mike Thompson, Janetta Maxwell, Debra Lane, David Hutchison, Irandokht Monfared

Partners and cities: LEEDS 2023, Leeds Art Gallery, Yorkshire Dance
's-Hertogenbosch 2024, Theaterfestival Boulevard

CORPUS is commissioned by Leeds Art Gallery with the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the United Kingdom and in partnership with Leeds 2023 and Yorkshire Dance.

Supported by (structural funding) of: Dutch Performing Arts Fund, Province of Noord Brabant, Municipality of Tilburg