For her first col­lect­ive piece, Kater­ina Andreou – asso­ci­ate artist at the ccncn – works in reac­tion to the con­fu­sion felt when attempt­ing to cre­ate a space in which to feel more sol­id. A frank and dir­ect col­lect­ive ges­ture where play and fic­tion find their way.

Kater­ina Andreou turns the state of con­fu­sion in which we find ourselves in a soci­ety where everything goes too fast and too badly into a driv­ing force. Driv­en by an over­rid­ing need to act and move, the cho­reo­graph­er sketches out a ter­rit­ory in which we can feel more sol­id, more integ­rated, which she is now explor­ing with three oth­er dan­cers. BLESS THIS MESS draws its inspir­a­tion from punk, not as an aes­thet­ic move­ment, but as a prac­tice: a punk ges­ture is a frank, dir­ect and neces­sary ges­ture for those who act, one that car­ries with it an ele­ment of play­ful­ness and absurdity. The cho­reo­graphy and sound work allow the sounds of the world to fil­ter through, and con­front the need for fic­tion and images that the con­text of the the­at­ric­al space calls for. Cre­ated with long-time col­lab­or­at­or Cris­ti­an Soto­may­or, the sound device is the tun­ing fork that will tune the bod­ies of the four per­formers, syn­chron­ized in the way they under­stand and respond to what they hear. The bod­ies explore a state of urgency, car­ried by a par­tic­u­lar energy, a tone that runs through them inde­pend­ently of move­ment. Against con­fu­sion, against everything.