do 7 mei 2026
Dans – BackBone
SOUNDS
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SOUNDS is a physical ode to the power of music — to sounds that are not only heard, but felt throughout the body. Choreographer and artistic director Donna Chittick weaves Caribbean rhythms, African influences, and hiphop into a vibrant, multidimensional experience where dance, music, and energy merge. She takes the audience on a personal journey back to her roots in Sint Maarten, where music is not just something to hear, but something to feel.
About SOUNDS
Four dancers and a singer bring a familiar, culturally rooted energy to the stage — the kind of rhythms and movements that you know from home, that are in your body even before you can name them. Soca, konpa, and African sounds emerge from identity, memory, and community. Movements are instinctive, fueled by rhythms that resonate with their heritage, memories, and life energy. Music becomes visible, tangible, and palpable through light, vibration, and pure physical expression.
SOUNDS is also a celebration of Afro-Caribbean heritage. It honors music as a source of joy, connection, and resistance. The performance resonates with the power of generations — before, during, and after the Transatlantic slave trade — showing how sound carries heritage, shapes identities, and unites communities.
The work demonstrates how music and movement form identity and travel through time and society. It is not a stylistic exercise, but a source of meaning, memory, and strength.
BackBone ensures the experience is accessible to both hearing and deaf or hard-of-hearing audiences, using vibration bands, rhythmic lighting, and movement-based cues: music as a universal language.
There is no spoken dialogue in this performance.
- Concept Donna Chittick/ Backbone
- Performance Charmaine Charlemagne, Darion Thompson, Leonarda Lovrekovic, Manou te Voortwis, Ibrah Silas Jackson
- Music Simone Giacomini
- Dramaturgy Yahmani Blackman
- Lighting design Jeffrey Steenbergen
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