Siri Loves Me

“There are eyes everywhere. There is no more blind spot. What will we dream of when everything becomes visible? We will dream that we are blind.”

Blindly, we walk through our Google Maps world believing Siri is telling us the truth. City centres are full of security cameras checking whether we are going in the right direction. Anything we cannot decipher does not exist. Science, technology and measurability are the new truth. Perhaps the new religion.

At Siri Loves Me (premiering 2017), choreographer Katja Heitmann depicts the way technology affects our world. Will future generations - in these times of Siri, Google Maps and security cameras - still be able to choose their own path? Will they still be able to move freely?

Fifty young people perform a ritual in the most concentrated manner. Together, they walk a catastrophic line and become an island of serenity at the epicentre of urban violence.

Siri Loves Me is performed by students from Dance Pre-education Dance Maastricht, Fontys Dance Academy and Tanzhaus NRW.

DanceMagazine, Zahira Mous
The big surprise of the Dutch Dance Festival: Siri Loves Me (...) a wonderful project in which the 50 youngsters create silence in the city through slow and concentrated movements. It is a breathtaking piece by indigo children that everyone should experience.

Theatre maker **** Siri Loves Me, Wendy Lubberding
The way they move, with straight backs, the movement of each arm and leg controlled and always performed exactly the same, is very reminiscent of the movements of the professional dancers in Heitmann's Pandora's Dropbox. But with these young dancers, the question becomes all the more urgent. What does it mean to grow up? How bad is it to make a mistake when the whole world revolves around looking at each other?