Mourn Baby Mourn

Anatomy of melancholy

"C'est la première fois que je me confronte à l'écriture de textes et c'est comme si j'expirais les mots comme j'expire le mouvement" (Katerina Andreou in Ma Culture)

According to tradition, lamentation is principally a women's matter. It serves to give expression to both the personal and the collective. Mourn Baby Mourn is such a lament which is both choreography and sound art, and above all an intimate manifest. 'The background is a daily situation that resembles a sort of sadness and frustration', says Katerina Andreou, 'and that is so deep that I don't know anymore where it comes from and if it really belongs to me.'

The choreographer lets herself be inspired by gestures that possess a mixture of power and boredom, a combination that, surprisingly enough, is very present in popular culture today. The solo Mourn Baby Mourn is a cry of distress, an attempt to force her  way out of melancholy by battering at the wall with all her strength, decibels and doubts.

As a dancer the French-Greek Katerina Andreou worked together with renowned choreographers such as Emmanuelle Huynh and Lenio Kaklea. In her work as a choreographer she is interested in the tension between disciplining and free will, dependence and autonomy. For her solo A kind of fierce she was awarded the Prix Jardin d'Europe at the ImpulsTanz Festival in 2016. In NEXT 2018, she presented the solo BSTRD : dancing behind a vinyl turntable, she wondered in how far also the bastard could be authentic. In corona year 2020 she would also have presented  Zeppelin Bend.