Eye, Lash!
Kat Válastur (Greece / Germany)
In this solo Válastur never dances alone
"Eine faszinierende magisch-mythische Welt" (Frank Schmid, rbbKultur****)
The new solo piece by and with Kat Válastur takes you into a landscape of flowers, metal tiles and water. We experience how the choreographer and performer embodies different female personas. The French medieval mystic Marguerite Porete, the character of Monkey, the daughter in Tarkovsky’s film Stalker, or the figure of Lady Jane Gray portrayed in a painting by Delaroche, are materialisations of a becoming. Kat Válastur dives into her kinetic archive and uses her imaginary and visual language to explore the kaleidoscopic experience of desire. With the help of the spirits of women of the past and present who have been oppressed, marginalized, abused, burned or decapitated she transforms the space into a zone, an enclosed world and potential home of magical power, charged with female spirituality.
At NEXT 2022, she also shows Diana, Even.
Concept, choreography, performance: Kat Válastur
Light design: Martin Beeretz
Light assistance: Vito Walter
Stage design: Ulrich Leitner
Stage Plastic: Ursula Linke
Sound design: Stavros Gasparatos
Sound engineering: Vagelis Tsatsis
Sound assistance: Reei Metz
Dramaturgy: Maja Zimmermann
Choreographic assistance: Tamar Sonn, Lena Klink
Costume: Kat Válastur, Werkstattkollektiv
Production management: Sina Kießling
Touring: Mascha Euchner Martinez
Production: Kat Válastur
Co-production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Concertgebouw (Brugge) / December Dance Festival
Funded by: Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe, NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ Co-production Fund for Dance, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media
