Performance at Huis Marseille, Amsterdam

Maïna Joner and artist-choreographer Clarinde Wesselink continue their collaboration on the performance at the edge of connection MEMENTO. The work is a choreographic exploration that inhabits the tension between two worlds coexisting beneath the skin. One world is global: the wars, political shifts, and distant violences that seep into us through the news, through friends’ stories—a pulse of stress quietly draining our bodies. (...) In parallel, we inhabit another world: the quietude of a garden at Huis Marseille, the swaying of leaves, the gradual tumbling of sand beneath the ground. Here, the body attunes to these more-than-human rhythms, as a way of being as present as we can with the garden, to listen, to be. In this attunement, there is disappearance: being both fully here and on the verge of dissolving. Yet this sense of dissolution draws us back into images of war, where bodies vanish, disappear, histories are erased.

Choreography: Clarinde Wesselink

Performers: Alla Kravchenko, Chen Mingjou, Edward Loyd, Clarinde Wesselink

Costume design: Maïna Joner

Photo: Niels Lokhorst

Watch the teaser here