A deconstructed performance on the Divine Feminine that frees the archetypical Mother Energy from her Holy Mary corset.
MISSA MAMA NOVA is a deconstructed performance with dance and vocals about femininity. A dancer (a Mother's body) writhes in and out of the sacred cliché and normative prison of the Woman-as-Mother. A choir of six sons (six Queer Kings) swarms around her and (a body of children) sings itself in and out of a classical song idiom. In the absence of the Father, the singers deconstruct the patriarchal heritage of the Christian liturgy and search for their adult voice. A flautist on the sidelines (a Mother’s breath) breathes and controls the polyphonic body of performers. Together the ensemble breaks open the silent grief of the holy Mother Mary and transforms it into a celebration of the feminine in every one of us.
“The beautiful compositions form the backbone of the performance. Tembuyser knows how to create an overwhelming emotional resonance”
theaterkrant
“The performers move behind the chairs, mumbling, speaking, almost singing. Flutist Dodó Kis lets breath flow from her instrument. A streak of light creeps through the darkness across the floor to her feet. A little further into the darkness, dancer Fumiyo Ikeda puts her hands into the beam of light, trembling, grasping. The rushing breath, fingers, and the smoky darkness around us seem like a variation on the creation story, but with goddesses instead of one single god.”
Fransien van der Putt, Theaterkrant - 25/03/2024
Credits
- Mother's body (dance) • Fumiyo Ikeda
- Mother’s breath (recorder) • Dodó Kis
- Body of children (choir) • Charlotte Dommershausen / Damani Leidsman / Mara Snip / Dominic Kraemer / Sonia Sheridan Jacquelin / Timo Tembuyser
- Concept | Composition | Libretto • Timo Tembuyser
- Dramaturgy • Lena Meyskens
- Intern dramaturgy • Jonas Istace
- Choreography • Fumiyo Ikeda / Timo Tembuyser
- Movement coach • Pim Veulings
- • Gilles Pollak / Timo Tembuyser
- Sound design • Jo Thielemans
- Sound Engineering • Pieter-Jan Buelens
- Styling & MUA • Sara Schoon
| Location | Dates | Hour | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Festival Cement (‘s-Hertogenbosch) https://www.festivalcement.nl Show on map | 22/3/2024 23/3/2024 | 21:00 19:00 | |
| De Brakke Grond (Amsterdam) +31 20 622 90 14 www.brakkegrond.nl Show on map | 22/4/2024 23/4/2024 | 20:00 20:00 | |
| Theater Rotterdam (Rotterdam) +31 10 404 41 11 www.theaterrotterdam.nl Show on map | 9/5/2024 10/5/2024 | 19:30 19:30 | |
| De Nieuwe Vorst (Tilburg) +31 13 532 31 10 www.denieuwevorst.nl Show on map | 29/5/2024 | 20:30 | |
| Het Nationale Theater (Den Haag) +31 88 3565356 Show on map | 31/5/2024 | 20:15 |