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Bless This Mess
Shows - installations
For her first group piece, Katerina Andreou – who is associate artist with the ccncn – finds her impetus in the confusion and constant noise of the world. From this mental and emotional state emerge play, absurdity, fiction and poetry.
The state of confusion in which we find ourselves in a society where everything goes too fast and too badly, is turned into a driving force by Katerina Andreou. Driven by an urgent need to act and move, the choreographer sketches out a territory in which we can feel more solid, have more integrity: this is what she is exploring with three other dancers in this piece. BLESS THIS MESS draws its inspiration from punk, not as an aesthetic movement but as a practice, reinterpreted in the light of this intuition: a punk gesture is a frank, direct and necessary one for those who act, with an element of playfulness and absurdity. It emerges from disorder, embracing it as you would embrace reality, to confront the need for fiction. The sound installation is the tuning fork that attunes the bodies of the four performers, synchronized in the way they understand and respond to what they hear. The bodies thus explore a state of urgency, carried by a particular energy, a tonicity that runs through them independently of movement. Against confusion, in close contact.
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Conception Katerina Andreou
Performance Katerina Andreou, Lily Brieu Nguyen, Baptiste Cazaux, Melissa Guex
Sound Katerina Andreou avec Cristian Sotomayor
Lights and set Yannick Fouassier
Gaze Costas Kekis
Stage manager Thomas Roulleau Gallais
Production and touring Elodie Perrin
Duration 1 heure
Production : BARK
Coproduction : CCN de Caen en Normandie dans le cadre du dispositif « Artiste associé » du ministère de la Culture, Athens Epidaurus Festival, T2G théâtre de Genevilliers, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Kunstenfestivaldesarts Bruxelles, Next Festival, ADC Genève, les Subs – lieu vivant d’expériences artistiques, Lyon, Maison de la Danse, Lyon — Pôle européen de Création –, CCN de Grenoble dans le cadre de l‘accueil studio, CCNR, Centre chorégraphique national de Rillieux-la-Pape, ICI—CCN Montpellier Occitanie / direction Christian Rizzo, KLAP Maison pour la danse à Marseille.
Accueil en résidence : Espace Pasolini, Kunstencentrum BUDA Courtrai
Avec le soutien de la Direction des Affaires Culturelles Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, du mécénat de la Caisse des Dépôts + LOGO, de Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels + LOGO
La création de Bless This Mess a commencée au watermill center — a laboratory for performance en avril 2023
Where and when
September 2024
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25
ccn de Caen en Normandie 8:00 pm
Tickets
Price 8€