Echoes of the Motherbody

work in progress performance, part of the Heritage trajectory

With 'Echoes of the Motherbody', Daan explores her own heritage through theatrical research, focusing on her maternal lineage. Using the body as an archive, she investigates what is passed on when words are lacking: patterns of silence, control, and fear that generations of women have carried.

The work starts from a personal question: why has her body been afraid to fully embrace life for so long? A fear she recognizes as something collective — visible in how people flee into conscious and unconscious coping mechanisms to avoid feeling.

Together with Feadan McCall (systemic coach and choreographer) and co-creator and KIN member Sara Lâm, among others, Daan works transdisciplinarily with text, music, movement, and ritual structures. Through systemic work, improvisation, and live music, she develops movement material and theatrical scenes in which proximity, timing, and dramaturgy are central.

During a residency at Theater Utrecht (October '25), she took the first steps in this research.

Echoes of the Motherbody transforms inherited patterns and traumas into a physical, sensory performance — with the intention of no longer passing them on to future generations. In a world that is becoming increasingly harsh and individualistic, this work advocates gentleness, embodiment, and connection as forms of resistance and healing.