Performances Main Stage
25.07 | 21.00 | 60'
Kalamata Dance Megaron / Main Stage
KAT VÁLASTUR
Dive Into You
In the performance Dive Into You, choreographer and performer Kat Válastur hybridizes the function of female oracles with the processes of photosynthesis and tree growth. Válastur creates a mythical correlation between the way female oracles transmit the divine by entering an ecstatic state and the way trees convert light into energy and oxygen through photosynthesis.
The transposition of this analogy into the theatrical space results in a fascinating solo that manifests the quantum and temporal dimensions of this condition through rhythm, voice, and elements of primordial energy such as vibration, spirals, and cyclicity.
Inspired by the deep, repetitive sounds of a wooden percussion instrument—the semantron—which Válastur brings to the stage through a wooden construction she activates with her movements, she creates a dance piece poised at the threshold between concert and choreography. The work is accompanied by a musical composition from musician Aho Ssan and vocals by Válastur herself.
Dive Into You emerges as a living oracle that seeks to connect us with our most mysterious and tender inner self.
With the support of the Goethe Institut
- Concept, choreography, performance and vocals: Kat Válastur
- Music, composition: Aho Ssan
- Sound Design: Davide Luciani
- Light design & technical direction: Martin Beeretz
- Set design: Nadja Sofie Eller
- Choreographic and dramaturgical assistant: Michalis Angelis
- Production Management: Saskia Schoenmaker
A production by Kat Válastur.
- Funded by: Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion
- Supported by: the NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ Coproduction Fund for Dance, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media
- Coproduced by: Hebbel am Ufer (HAU), CNN Centre Chorégraphique National de Grenoble
- Supported by: O ESPAÇO DO TEMPO
KAT VÁLASTUR
Kat Válastur aka Katerina Papageorgiou is a Greek choreographer who lives and works in Berlin and Athens. Her works bring to the stage the ruins of a world considered obsolete. Archaic elements of the Mediterranean South—and particularly the Greek South—such as spirituality, magic, mysticism, and rituals, which remain active mainly in rural life, as well as the wild Mediterranean landscapes and their soundscapes, are elements that permeate her works. Válastur brings these elements as fragments of a world of rhythms, sounds, and voices into the contemporary techno-capitalist era, into a field of forces where the modern technological world and the archaic coexist outside the framework of linear time.
Through a mythical construction that abolishes the linearity of time between past and future, Válastur translates the force field of this coexistence into a hybrid choreographic and visual language between the archaic and science fiction. Poetic, mesmerizing, seductive yet raw, her works—such as Ah! Oh! A Contemporary Ritual (2014), Rasp Your Soul (2017), Stellar Fauna (2018), Eye, Lash! (2021), Diana, Even (2022), The FarNear (2022), and Strong-Born (2023)—convey a sense of urgency and function as contemporary rituals.
Válastur was a guest artist at Olafur Eliasson’s Institute for Spatial Experiments and was recognized as a promising talent by Tanz magazine (2016). She has received support from the Hermès Foundation, the Live Works–Performance Act Award, and in 2023 was a resident artist at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Her work is presented internationally at venues such as HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Théâtre de la Ville (Paris), and the Athens-Epidaurus Festival, among others.