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The project Dive Into You aims to convey some urgent issues such as disposability, ecological crisis through the body and translate them into a rebellious dance work. The need to actively restore a healing state of care and justice stems from experiences with and in systems of power. 

This work is inspired, among other things, by the sketches of trees by the US artist Gordon Matta Clark (1943-1978). The tree in Matta Clark's consciousness is a dancing being, a dancing body, a manifestation of energy.

In Dive Into You, Kat Válastur performs a dance, in which her actions, movements and gestures formulate a ritual that symbolically accomplishes a transformation. This dance ritual is not about representation, but about finding ways to symbolically link the biological attributes of the organic life of trees with mythological and economic aspects. For example, the narrative of Ovid's Metamorphoses like Daphne "becoming a tree" and how this myth communicates with the economic factors of the timber industry and wood products. The female body as an active agent in the materialisation of life becomes the medium that channels such fictional coexistence through ritual, in order to create a condition and space for a certain kind of a state that strives to anchor in our consciousness and hearts the notion of caring.

Credits

Concept & Choreography 
Kat Válastur

Performance
Kat Válastur

Music
Aho Ssan

Lighting Design & Technical Direction
Martin Beeretz

Sound Design & Surround Mixing
Davide Luciani

Choreographic Assistance
Michalis Angelidis

Stage Design
Nadja Sofie Eller

Costumes
Nina Krainer und Marie Gerstenberger / werkstattkollektiv / 

Video & Editing
Ethan Folk, Nadja Krüger

Animation trailer
Erifili Doukeli

Dramaturgical Advice
Filippos Telesto

Production Management
Saskia Schoenmaker

Touring Management
Mascha Euchner-Martinez

Production 
Kat Válastur

Co-production 
HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble and O ESPAÇO DO TEMPO

Funded by Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe and NPN performance Network

© Nysos Vasilopoulos

Kat Válastur is a Greek choreographer who lives and works in Berlin. Using the mythical as a tool, she brings the archaic into the contemporary context to explore how it can be recalled and used as a transformative force once it is exposed to a new perspective and view. For Válastur, this is the female gaze. A gaze that carries the wildness and warmth of the South and the Aegean Archipelago where she comes from, and a gaze that seeks to resist the systems of power that continue to haunt and torment it. In a choreographic condition where time is non-linear and past, present and future coexist, an intense and speculative process takes place, conveying a sense of urgency for a physical and spiritual transformation. 

Kat Válastur (GR)

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