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Mourn Baby Mourn
Shows - installations
In the piece Mourn Baby Mourn, Katerina Andreou’s primary material is sadness and nostalgia. The piece is a solo devised as a distress signal, a virulent attempt at escaping melancholy.
Greek choreographer Katerina Andreou’s reflection starts with an intimate and collective feeling of sadness and frustration whose echoes resonate across other pieces – the texts and thoughts of philosopher Mark Fisher, who analyzes our 21st-century society through this widespread melancholy, as well as “hauntological” pop music, which is peopled with ghosts of the past. More than the existence of these other works, Andreou’s piece Mourn Baby Mourn is fueled by the choreographer’s disturbing acknowledgement that she sees perhaps too much of herself in them. It is this intimacy and personal dead end that she intends to turn into material to write, dance and produce sound; to mourn in English means to grieve and lament – a woman’s business, where the personal and the collective meet. With its pop title, Mourn Baby Mourn attempts to escape melancholy through the great physical expressivity of Katerina Andreou’s movements, inspired by “gestures which combine strength and boredom, a strange combination that is often found in pop culture.”
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Conception, text, performance Katerina Andreou
Sound creation and arrangement Katerina Andreou and Cristian Sotomayor
Lights and staging Yannick Fouassier
Advisors Myrto Katsiki
Video Arnaud Pottier
Artistic advisor Jocelyn Cottencin
Duration 45 minutes
Production: BARK
Production — Diffusion: Elodie Perrin
Coproduction : centre chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie – directed by Alban Richard, for the Associated Artist program, Les SUBS – lieu vivant d’expériences artistiques, Lyon, ADC Genève, Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, La Soufflerie de Rézé, La Place de la Danse – CDCN Toulouse / Occitanie, for the Accueil Studio residency program, centre chorégraphique national Montpellier — Occitanie / Direction Christian Rizzo, le Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans – Directed by Maud Le Pladec
Supported by: Direction régionale des affaires culturelles d’Île-de-France, Aide à l’expérimentation : RAMDAM, UN CENTRE D ‘ART
Katerina Andreou is Associated Artist for the 2022–2024 residency in the centre chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie
Partnerships
With the Caen Theatre
BORD DE SCÈNE
Tuesday April 04 after the show
Where and when
April 2023
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04
ccn de Caen en Normandie 8:00 pm
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05
ccn de Caen en Normandie 8:00 pm