A story about beginnings and endings.

Ultima Vez, the company of internationally celebrated choreographer Wim Vandekeybus, comes to Groningen with What Remains, a story about beginning and ending. About standing at the extremity of a lifeline, at the point where you begin as a child or where you end as an elder. Young choreographer Zoë Demoustier, who will be working under the wings of Ultima Vez for the next few years, brings different generations together on stage: children, young adults and older dancers.

One of Demoustier’s inspirations was Brain Shadows, J. Bernlef’s poignant novel about a man suffering from dementia who becomes entangled in his memories and concoctions, and the loneliness and fear that accompany them. Together with three generations of dancers, Demoustier rebuilds what remains of crumbling memories with hope. After all, there is also beauty in losing, in the gradual lightening of the body’s archives.