wo 3 december 2025
Dans – Cheroney Pelupessy
Mama’ku
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How much of our mothers do we carry with us without even knowing? Mama’ku is an intimate and layered film and performance about the invisible lines between mother and daughter—about the silent legacies passed down through generations. A journey through memories, movements, and stories that live on in our bodies.
About Mama'ku
The evening opens with a documentary by Sven Peetoom, who followed choreographer Cheroney Pelupessy and her mother on their journey to Indonesia and the Moluccas, where Cheroney seeks to uncover her mother’s past and the traces it has left behind. Memories long buried begin to stir. In ancient customs and deeply rooted stories, Cheroney discovers not only history, but also herself.
The film is followed by a physical duet between Cheroney and renowned 73-year-old Javanese dancer Elly Lutan from Jakarta, in which contemporary dance merges with traditional movement language. Their meeting on stage portrays both the distance and closeness between generations—the search for, and discovery of, who we are.
Mama’ku is an ode to mothers and daughters, to what is spoken and what remains unspoken, a performance that reveals just how deeply the past lives on within us.
About Cheroney Pelupessy
Cheroney Pelupessy is a choreographer, dancer, and creator with roots in Indonesian and Moluccan heritage. In her work, she explores how history, identity, and cultural legacy live on in the body and in movement. She combines contemporary dance with traditional Indonesian and Moluccan influences, developing a unique movement language that is both rooted in her heritage and strikingly innovative.
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