Concept
Donna Chittick/ Backbone
Choreografie Donna Chittick i.s.m performers

Performance
Charmaine Charlemagne (zang), Darion Thompson (dans), Leonarda Lovrekovic (dans), Manou te Voortwis (dans), Stephano Linkers (dans)

Muziek
Simone Giacomini - 
 
Muziek third eye/ zang 
Vernon Chatlein
 
Dramaturgie
Yahmani Blackman

Lichtontwerp- en decorontwerp
Jeffrey Steenbergen

Technici
Ewout Blanken 
Gijs Feskens
 
Styling
Ishijah Thompson 
 
Zakelijk Leider
Elisia da Silva Martins Peças 

Graphic Design
Anthony van de Vijver 

Marketing coordinator
Shewska Verberne

Productieleider
Maud Bruggeman

Tourmanager
Megan Rietvelt

Fotografie 
Sjoerd Derine 

Videografie
Hector Ruiz- Pixelstream

Social media handles:
@backbone_donnachittick 
@donnachittich_ Donna- Artistic Leader and Choreographer
@80sdope: Darion - Dancer
@leonarda_lovrekovic Leonarda- Dancer
@Stephanolinkers Stephano- Dancer
@manoutevoortwis Manou- Dancer
@magne.music- Singer 
@jeffreysteenbergen- licht en decorontwerp
@sjoerdderine- Sjoer Photographer
@pixelstream.meida- Videographer 

Caribbean rhythms. African influences. Hip hop energy.
SOUNDS is not a performance you simply watch — it is one you feel through your entire body. It is a physical ode to the power of music: sounds you don’t just hear, but that resonate and vibrate throughout your whole being.

Choreographer and artistic director Donna Chittick weaves Caribbean rhythms, African influences and hip hop into a pulsating, high-energy experience where dance, music and vibrating energy merge. She takes you on a personal journey back to her roots in Sint Maarten, where music is first and foremost something to be felt. How does sound affect your body, your emotions, your energy?

The vitality of Caribbean music — the driving rhythms of soca and konpa, alongside new sounds from Africa — forms the foundation of this work. Within this euphoria, hip hop, Caribbean influences and South African movement language blend into a powerful whole.
Four dancers and one vocalist bring a lived Afro-Caribbean energy to the stage. Their movements are instinctive responses to familiar sounds — echoes from Africa, carried across the Caribbean and resonating through voice and rhythm. Music is both their origin and their compass: the energy that gave birth to them and continues to guide them. In their purest form, without masks, they reveal what music sets in motion within their bodies.

Soca, konpa, hip hop and African sounds become fuel for movement rooted in identity, community and memory. Music becomes visible and tangible through light, vibration and raw physical expression.
SOUNDS celebrates Afro-Caribbean heritage: music as a source of joy, connection and resilience. It echoes generations before, during and after the Transatlantic slave trade, revealing how sound shapes and binds communities.

BackBone makes this experience accessible for deaf and hard of hearing audiences through vibro-belts, rhythmic light and vibrational elements.