Dance
Katerina Andreou
« Mourn Baby Mourn »
27 - 30 Sep 2023
The event is over
Based on a tradition that dictates that lamentation is, by principle, a women’s affair and an expression of both individual and collective emotion, Mourn Baby Mourn is a choreographic and sound composition that is counterintuitively lively and exhilarating, functioning as an intimate manifesto on the question of mourning.
The background is an everyday state that resembles a sort of sadness and frustration that is so deep that the choreographer no longer knows where it came from or if it really belongs to her. She draws inspiration from gestures combining strength and boredom, a strange mix that she often finds in popular culture.
With Mourn Baby Mourn, Katerina Andreou, haunted by our lost futures, sends out a distress signal, an attempt to break free from melancholy by running headlong into breakdown, against the wall, which becomes the rallying cry to share with us all her strength, decibels and doubts. She choreographs a space infused with a temporal disjunction, a strange dialogue between the archaic and the contemporary, shifting from a lost past to a lost future.
Design and performance: Katerina Andreou
Sound: Katerina Andreou and Cristian Sotomayor
Lighting and space: Yannick Fouassier
Text: Katerina Andreou
External perspective: Myrto Katsiki
Video: Arnaud Pottier
Acknowledgements: Natali Mandila, Jocelyn Cottencin, Frédéric Pouillaude
Production and distribution: Élodie Perrin
Production : BARK
Coproduction : centre chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie – direction Alban
Richard dans le cadre du dispositif « Artiste associé » ; Les SUBS – lieu vivant d’expériences Artistiques (Lyon) ; Pavillon ADC (Genève) ; Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis ; CND Centre national de la Danse ; La Soufflerie - Scène conventionnée de Rézé ; NEXT Arts Festival ; La Place de la Danse CDCN Toulouse Occitanie, dans le cadre du dispositif Accueil Studio ; ICI-CCN de Montpellier – Occitanie / Pyrénées Méditerranée - Direction Christian Rizzo ; Centre Chorégraphique national d’Orléans – Direction Maud Le Pladec.
With the support of la Drac Île-de-France / ministère de la Culture ; de Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
Aide à l’expérimentation : Ramdam, un centre d 'art ; BUDA Courtrai ; CND Centre national de la danse
Katerina Andreou est artiste associée au CCN de Caen en Normandie – Direction Alban Richard (2022-2024)
When
8pm - 9pm
Where
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