AMBER DOCTERS VAN LEEUWEN
Moving Narrative
Italian premiere
PERFORMANCE
Sunday June 14 | from 6 pm to 10 pm
Palazzo Ducale
Teatrino
Tickets
Free Entry
Amber Docters van Leeuwen
Amber Docters van Leeuwen is a composer, performer and multimedia artist whose practice is research-based and brings together sound, documentary and theatrical elements. She studied cello at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague and at the Manhattan School of Music in New York.
Her work integrates sound, performance, visual media and space within an interdisciplinary approach that treats sound as an autonomous narrative force, understood as language, a carrier of memory and a tool for thought. Guided by political and social questions, her practice engages with themes such as displacement, intergenerational transmission, trauma and identity.
Moving Narrative
At Electropark 2026 she presents Moving Narrative, a documentary theatre performance that continues her research on international adoption, connecting three generations of her family (herself, her biological father and her daughter Lou), starting from the encounter with her father in 2022, which forms the basis of the project.
The work raises a central question: what happens to family bonds when an entire generation is disrupted?
On stage, Amber Docters van Leeuwen appears alone. In this solo performance, she constructs a live immersive soundscape through 16 speakers surrounding the audience. Voices and field recordings from Seoul intertwine with a musical composition, creating a sonic installation that unfolds as an intimate narrative. At its core emerges the voice and imaginative gaze of Lou, the artist’s daughter, opening a poetic space where reality and fiction merge.
Note from the maker
With Moving Narrative, the invisible legacy of adoption is made palpable: a search for origin, identity, and intergenerational resonance. What began with the unexpected message from my biological father unfolded into a story spanning three generations: my father, my daughter Lou, and myself. In this performance we move between speech and silence, between fact and feeling. A daughter searches for her father, a father wrestles with distance, and a child poses questions no one else dares to ask.
My artistic drive lies in making these fragile attempts at connection visible, not in order to repair what is broken, but to give presence and validity to what so often remains unspoken. Through music, sound, and story, a trace emerges that can be carried forward, by Lou, and by others. For me, art is a space where vulnerability can safely resound, and where new relations can take shape.
Cover Photo Credits: Nine Island