Woven in the bone is a creation for the BODHI Project in Salzburg. The piece premiered at SZENE during Sommerszene on June 16th, 2025.
"Woven in the Bone is a work of high precision and profound openness for the process. (...) Schuitemaker’s process, built collaboratively and horizontally, allows movement to emerge from deep inside the dancer’s own sensing system. It is a choreography of becoming together, of connecting all bodies." — Anna Menslin
"The groove that drives the action is itself subject to a constant transformation: at some point, the pulsating sound falls silent, but it continues in the tapping of shoes on the floor. This sound eventually transitions into the speech rhythm of the intense spoken-word work "People's Faces" by Kae Tempest; an impressive finale." — Clemens Panagl, Salzburger Nachrichten
Dance is transmission. Passed from body to body, it holds onto what might otherwise be lost - gestures, rhythms, ways of being, of being together. Yet holding on is not the same as keeping alive. What we hold onto can also hold us back. Because survival is not just about what stays: it is about what stays in motion, refusing to disappear.
Woven in the Bone stands as a testament to survival. It does not seek to reconstruct what is lost, or might be lost, but embodies resistance; to allow ourselves to evolve, to insist that in the face of today’s push toward conservatism, something new must emerge. Starting from their voices, and moving as one, five dancers reshape movement into transformation itself; they make palpable how the body moves through the force of change. Defiant. Alive.