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Marie Goeminne (Dansmakers) reconciles you with death in 'Have I been here before'

You instinctively flee from death, but in 'Have I been here before' choreographer Marie Goeminne actually brings death close. Not threatening, but close to your skin and hand in hand with life. She shows death and life in an intimate entanglement.

Photo: Eva Gjaltema

Three dancers merge intently and vulnerably into a flow, in which life emerges, is passed on, passes into death and then on...

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Maarten Baanders

Free-lance arts journalist Leidsch Dagblad. Until June 2012 employee Marketing and PR at the LAKtheater in Leiden.View Author posts

You instinctively flee from death, but in 'Have I been here before' choreographer Marie Goeminne actually brings death close. Not threatening, but close to your skin and hand in hand with life. She shows death and life in an intimate entanglement.

Photo: Eva Gjaltema

Three dancers merge intently and vulnerably into a flow, in which life emerges, is passed on, passes into death and then on...

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