Music you can feel with your body. Music in direct contact with its audience. That’s what Sounding Bodies is all about - it is an organisation creating theatrical music experiences. Sounding Bodies combines various disciplines into one synergetic form: 1+1=3 ABOUT SOUNDING BODIESSounding Bodies is groundbreaking, innovative and open-minded. Our roots lie in the cultural sector as makers of musical and multidisciplinary theater performances, but we also have a strong social vision and mission. That is why we regularly seek collaborations with other sectors, including healthcare. So we are not only located within the theater walls, but also outside of it. Our artistic quality is of paramount importance in everything we do. Mission and visionWe believe in the power of music as a means to connect. We use music to help people reconnect with themselves and others. Music can offer comfort and recognition and at the same time inspire a different approach to the world around us. In this way we use our artistry to create social meaning and develop broader social value. We are radically breaking with this world of hard and great contradictions. Instead, we make an impact with soft activism, empathy and affection. We do not know the answers to the complex issues of our time, but we can initiate the meeting. We shift the focus from distraction to attention, from superficiality to deepening and from fragmentation to concentration.

Jacqueline Hamelink is a cellist who can't seem to sit still! Originally working in the classical music world, she is always passionate about exploring new musical idioms and a wide range of theatrical forms. Visual art, fashion, dramaturgy, photography, poetry, design, architecture and new music by living composers are combined and mixed, manifesting her fascination with contemporary music and music theatre. Moving, singing, dancing, acting, designing, producing her own new projects and creating, or in short - playing for and with a new and receptive audience is what she really feels strongly about: touching the strings and removing the barriers between the heart and the mind.