Nora Heilmann (Germany/the Netherlands)

‘We start at 37°C, average body temperature, two bodies are simultaneously present. We raise the temperataure, the speed, confuse, sort out, confuse […] Until we vanish into thin air, dematerialise. Gradually, we decelerate. The temperature falls below zero. Become architecture, become an object. … ‘This is how intensive, trance-like motion sequences come about. 37°C deals with the development of a pure, self-sufficient choreography, as well as with the movements of two people, their relationship to one another and the ‘autonomy of the “in-between”’.

Nora Heilmann was born in Leipzig and lives in Amsterdam, where she studied at the School for New Dance Development. Her work centres on exploring a new form of bodily consciousness, which she sees as an intensive developmental process in the search for that ‘in-between’: between the dancers, between the dancers and the audience, between the performance as presentation and as pure movement – captivating the audience.