Performance, 45’
Teatro 2, Pelanda
Admission free while places last
Strobe lights will be used during the performance
BSTRD is a solo performance, based on the notions of impurity and hybridisation: what if the idea of purity is an illusion and everything was made of a much more complex material, so that the question would not be focused on the origin (or originality), but on the final function or/and impact to the rest? Inspired mostly by House culture's practice of amalgamation, Katerina Andreou is interested on developing a physicality that can carefully serve the concept of pure impurity, plus on the creation of a vinyl as scenography and tool of the political and poetic discourse of a bastardised figure, free of all enclosure and codification, but respectful to its reality.
Born in Athens and based in France Katerina Andreou graduated both from the Law School-University of Athens, and the State School of Dance in Athens. She attended the
program ESSAIS in CNDC d' Angers and holds a master degree of Paris 8 on research and choreography. As a dancer she collaborated among others with DD Dorvillier, Lenio Kaklea, Bryan Campbell, Dinis Machado, Emmanuelle Huynh, Ana Rita Teodoro.
In her own work, she is interested in developing states of presence sorting out from a constant negotiation between contrasted tasks, fictions and universes, often questioning the relation to ideas as authority and autonomy, communication and censorship. She often makes the music design of her own pieces.
She was awarded with the choreography price Prix Jardin d'Europe, in ImpulsTanz Festival in 2016 for the solo dance piece A kind of fierce. She then created the solo BSTRD (2018) and the duo Zeppelin Bend (2021) with Natali Mandila.
She is associated artist in CCN de Caen for the years 2022-2025 and in the Master Program EXERCE in CCN de Montpellier where she takes part in the design and developement of the pedagogical program.
BSTRD
choreography and performance: Katerina Andreou
sound design: Katerina Andreou
in collaboration with Eric Yvelin
light design: Yannick Fouassier
outside Eye: Myrto Katsiki, Lynda Rahal
production: Mi Mai/BARK
coproduction: Onassis STEGI, CDCN Atelier de Paris, CCN de Caen, CCN d’Orléans , La place de la danse CDCN de Toulouse, Ballet de Marseille
partners: ImpulsTanz Festival (Prix Jardin D’Europe residency), Kunstencentrum BUDA, CN D Paris (residence augmentée), La Menagerie de Verre Paris (StudioLab) , LA CABINE à Angers, Reservoir Danse Rennes, MonitorFest Heraklion
with the support of: ARCADI Ile de France, DRAC Ile de France
PREMIERE: 5th Young Choreographers Festival, ONASSIS STEGI, Athens