Community of Tilburg

DansBrabant

The community

Who’s in

The initial community was formed by women of Tilburg with shoe size 37,5, aged between 35-70. DansBrabant focused on the more challenging areas of the city. For reaching out to these women they collaborated with different networks and social organizations

Organizations involved

Feniks – centre for emancipation.

MST – social support centre.

Ronde Tafel Huis – intercultural meeting centre and different community centres.

The production

Residu(e), what we leave behind – Choreographer Nikita Maheshwary started one-on-one walks with 15 women from different neighborhoods of Tilburg in January ’22. Under the name ‘37.5 community Tilburg,’ this developed over the months from a community of 19 women to the current core of 9 women.

The women, coming from different walks of life, upbringings, generations and cultures, were first concerned with the question “Where do we come from?” while reflecting together on overarching themes of care, womanhood, freedom & limitations, and what it means to be a community. In the second phase of the project, the urgency slowly began to shift to ‘where are we (collectively) going’ and ‘what do we want to leave behind‘.

The women show the result in the production Residu(e), what we leave behind; a poetic dream about a shared and multicolored future. The colorful collection of stories is interwoven with scenes of small triumphant actions. A mix of movement, spoken word and multimedia.

Touring

9th august 2023 – ‘s Hertogenbosch, Theaterfestival Boulevard
27th august 2023 – Tilburg, Festival GLoBe (DansBrabant)
10th october 2023 – Ljubljana, International Festival of Contemporary Arts (City of women)

Credits

Concept & choreography: Nikita Maheshwary
Project coordinator/community developer: Lotte van Oudheusden
Music: Arthur Music, Arthur van der Kuip
Artwork: Nikè Marchand
Community members: Felmy Laming; Monique van Beers; José van Rijswijk; Derya Demiroglu; Alie Pigmans; Judith Landman; Mieke de Roo; Harjanti Bors; Marianne Möller

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Community Members

Derya

Community of Tilburg

Derya

Nice to discover a new city, a new country and these European women from different ages through movement, dance, creation and eating! Personally for me it was beginning of opening myself again back in crowded groups after pandemic term. And it has been soft re-beginning of my professional movement process after my wrist injury (with which I was not capable even daily life movements). Also we experienced meaningful, creative, nourishing and fun exercises at times which were nice to explore and encounter. From professional and artistic perspective, sometimes it has been hard to continue in the process (even though I had worked in different groups like this), but somehow it is really beautiful to see how things have been resolving in its own way. The process have been helping me to understand Dutch culture, communication, way of thinking, how things, concepts proceed here. So I'm glad to learn these codes in a project in which I can have experiences with movement and creativity.

Felmy Laming

Community of Tilburg

Felmy Laming

Inclusivity, caring, creative, community, womenhood, selfcare, moving, health, power, boundaries, growing.

Marianne Möller

Community of Tilburg

Marianne Möller

I loved all the sessions with all the dancemakers during which we learned so much, and being included in a creative process. Our group was very mixed, not all of us seemed to understand what we were working on, but it taught me to stay connected to group members despite our differences. I take home lots of learnings, fun, and a deep wish to continue being included in creative processes and performances.