Between Worlds: Listening, Moving, Becoming
Sister Mine Closing
Come listen, think, and move with us on December 22nd, as we conclude SISTER MINE: Between Holding On and Letting Go, the solo-exhibition by artist Ivna Esajas.
Ivna Esajas has transformed the solo-show concept into a pluriversal world—one where Black women, femmes, and beings take center stage, in dialogue with artists, poets, choreographers, and dreamers. Now, to mark the closing of this project, we invite you to gather with us for Between Worlds: Listening, Moving, Becoming.
Part I - 3pm The Collective Body / Out of Context (Performance)
Dayna Martinez Morales (Movementalist) and Rutger Esajas (DEGASTEN) have been collaborating for quite some time, sharing a vision for transdisciplinary work in co-creation both within and beyond the performing arts.
In the coming period, their collaboration will focus on the impact of the collective body, exploring connection and the interaction between the body, rituals, and spirituality.
The Collective Body / Out of Context is a research project by Dayna Martinez Morales and DEGASTEN (IN*BETWEEN Lab) in which they jointly explore new forms of connection and expression. In an era of globalization, digital distance, and social fragmentation, The Collective Body seeks to offer a space where authenticity takes center stage. Here, the body is not just seen as an individual entity but as part of a larger whole—a collective experience embodying healing, solidarity, and community.
Between Holding On and Letting Go
This project ties in with the exhibition by Ivna Esajas, which explores finding one’s own place beyond the boundaries of the canon, stereotypes, and expectations. It seeks the in-between space where movement, spirituality, and imagination intersect.
Her themes, such as solidarity, outsiderhood, and community spirit, converge with the question: What does it mean for a body to be part of a collective?
Performance:
A performance by Dayna Martinez Morales, Jesse Molenaar, Alexandra Loembe, Christopher van der Meer & DJ Lovesupreme (tbc).
Be carried into an encounter where movement and meaning converge—a ritual that transcends "context," creating a new space for all of us.
About DEGASTEN:
DEGASTEN specializes in guiding young talents (ages 13–31) in deeply personal contexts, emphasizing their lived experiences, co-creation, real-life encounters, and ongoing artistic research. This approach results in theater performances and experiences marked by a distinctive artistic signature.
The IN*BETWEEN Lab is a space for socially engaged work and collaborations—a hub for methodology development, knowledge exchange, and social impact.
About Dayna Martinez Morales:
A dancer and choreographer with Bolivian roots, Dayna draws inspiration from non-Western rituals and performative traditions, particularly from the Andes. Her practice offers an alternative perspective on identity, community, and diversity.
Her work investigates how dance and rituals can foster deeper connections—not only between people but also with nature and spirituality.
Part II - 4pm Deep listening with the echoes of the black feminist ensemble
A workshop/listening session with Dr. Aditi Jaganathan.
The space(s) between the notes prise open worlds of being, belonging and becoming. An unerring and enduring invitation to be danced with, the notes hold layered histories of the ways in which Black women have come together to figure out new ways of coming to self and each other. The notes rest on an opening, a way into (re)imagining humanity through the prism of Black women’s layered, nuanced and complex subjectivities. Moving with the ensemble of the screams of Abby Lincoln, the whispers of Miriam Makeba, the choral arrangements of Mary Lou Williams, the capacious drones of Alice Coltrane, the trippy bass lines of Meshell Ndegecello, we orient ourselves to deeper registers of freedom. And in this way, we get down to (re)new(ed) ways of beings, with the ensemble of Black women leading the way. Responding to the call of “Sister Mine: between holding on and letting go”, surrender to the liminality of the space we gather in. Come with open hearts, spirits and minds to move and be moved by the sounds of Black feminist imaginaries.
About Dr. Aditi Jaganathan:
Dr Aditi is a thinker and creator, writer and dreamer.
Having worked at the intersections of law, culture and politics in various capacities, Aditi is motivated by a politics of refusal, living in rupture as rapture; turning away from hegemonic worlds of oppression and tuning into something different, beyond the world we live in and moving to the rhythms of an elsewhere. It is this compulsion which guides her pedagogy in the education work she does. Riffing off education for liberation, she creates spaces of (un)learning as a site of radical praxis, using tools of music, film and visual culture, to unpack the ways in which ideologies of oppression and liberation travel through cultural production. She teaches her own course, Rhythm, Race, Revolution as well as courses at different London-based academic institutions.
With a particular interest in creativity as decolonial praxis, she situates the imagination as a radical site of refusal and resistance. Her research work examines the different ways in which Black and Brown cultural production has activated autonomous modes of meaning-making and self-determination in London, through contesting racialised norms and (re)imagining racialised postcolonial subjectivities. And it is through an ethic of jazz that Aditi curates this work.
Date: December 22, 2024
Time: 3pm
Location: Westerdoksdijk 597
Language: English
Entrance: Free – RSVP by emailing rsvp@metro54.nl