Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen en Normandie.
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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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Cast

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

  • 25
    ccn de Caen en Normandie 8:00 pm

Tickets

Price 8€

Artistic collaboration