Motus Mori: CORPUS by Katja Heitmann | Dec 2023
Motus Mori: CORPUS was created during a two week residency with choreographer Katja Heitmann and a group of people from Leeds aged 20 to 86.
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About Motus Mori: CORPUS by Katja Heitmann | Dec 2023
In 2023 Yorkshire Dance worked in partnership with Leeds Art Gallery with support from Leeds 2023 and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to commission Motus Mori: CORPUS a new work by Dutch-German choreographer Katja Heitmann. Following a two week residency at Yorkshire Dance, Motus Mori: CORPUS was performed twice at Leeds Art Gallery as part of Leeds 2023.
About Motus Mori: CORPUS
Motus Mori: CORPUS is a performance-ritual devised by Dutch-German choreographer Katja Heitmann and created with a group of people from Leeds aged 20 to 86. Katja collects and preserves movements to explore the transfer of embodied knowledge to a communal body. Each of the performers have a heightened awareness of how they move because of age or physical condition. They follow and carry each other’s movements, holding each other’s bodies in their own body. In a highly concentrated and minimalistic manner, they will perform a ritual for handing over a human movement from body to body to body.
About Katja Heitmann
Since 2019, choreographer Katja Heitmann has been building an archive for human movement: Motus Mori. Working with a growing group of movement-archivists, she collects and preserves movements from people of all ages, bodies and backgrounds. Based on this ever-moving archive, she creates artworks and you can read more about Motus Mori here
Image: Motus Mori: CORPUS by Katja Heitmann at Leeds Art Gallery, 2023 © Michael Godsall