The work is a choreographic exploration that inhabits the tension between two worlds coexisting beneath my 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. I find myself asking: how far, in time and place, does a war truly reach? 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. The oscillation between these realities became central to MEMENTO, its title echoing momentum, the swing of a chapel clock moving forward and backward.

Concept and Choreography: Clarinde Wesselink
Performers: Alla Kravchenko, Chen Mingjou, Edward Loyd, Clarinde Wesselink
Costume design: Maïna Joner
Camera: Niels Lokhorst
Editting and sound: Bram van Dam

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