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.