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.