Nelly’s Locket

Nelly’s Locket brings to life through dance, sound, and images emerging experience of history, memory and creates a sensory journey. By intertwining echoes of the past with the present, this event calls us to reflect, to reclaim our agency, and to dream a future.

Choreographer & performer: Liat T. Waysbort,
Music, sound and visuals: Emanuele Pellegrini
Curator and set design: Ronit Eden
Technical director: Robin van den Berg
Technical support: Mathisse Coornaert
Video documentation: Aitan Ebrahimoff
PR and production assistant: Elinor Pelleg
Tour planning: Machteld van Bronkhorst
Production: Bitter Sweet Dance
Partner: Theater Na de Dam
With thanks to: Plein Theater
Supported by:
Amsterdam Fund for the Arts
Levi Lassen Foundation
The Cultural Fund
Theater Na de Dam
Vfonds
Werktuig PPO
Private donors

Performances in different venues in the Netherlands, 2025
Curatorship and stage design

Nelly's Locket (trailer)

Text [eng]

Interview with: Liat T. Waysbort, choreographer and performer

Interview with: Emanuele Pellegrini, Musician and visuals editor

Interview with: Ronit Eden, curator and set designer

The performance

4th May, 2025 a premier at PleinTheater, Amsterdam. A conversation following the show with a guest, the creators, and the audience. Gust: Noa Gur Golan, activist

10th May, 2025, Cafe Belcampo, Amsterdam. A conversation following the show with a guest, the creators, and the audience. Moderator: Gary Feingold. Gust: Itay Garmy

13th, 14th May, 2025, two shows at DE Leeuw, Arnhem. A conversation following the show with a guest, the creators, and the audience. Moderator: Bernadette de Heer, an art researcher

28th June, 2025, Cafe Belcampo, Amsterdam. A conversation following the show with a guest, the creators, and the audience. Moderator: Gary Feingold. Guest: Dr. Erella Grassiani Associate Professor Anthropology UvA, co- founder of gate48

The performance

Nelly Aman's locket

The performance (photo: Aitan Ebrahimoff)

A Stolperstein in front of the house in Arnhem from which Sophia was taken away in 1942

Sofia Wolf in Arnhem. Photo from Nelly Aman's family album

Photo from Nelly Aman's family album