FAROUT Live Arts Festival Katerina Andreou — Bless This Mess

dance
performance

How can confusion be turned into a tool, a creative strategy?

In an attempt to regain strength but also a space of confidence, Katerina Andreou – artist, dancer, choreographer and musician – starts from what she calls “constant noise”, a mental and emotional state created by a society where instability and doubt are omnipresent.

Bless This Mess emerges within this zone of restlessness and blind spots ; a space which creates momentum and an irrepressible desire to move with others. In this piece, Katerina Andreou attempts to create choreographic and sound work from a place of urgency, and to leave room for play – a way to create moments of relief and joy.

Bio

Born in Athens, Katerina Andreou is based in France. A graduate of the Athens Law School and the Athens National School of Dance, she followed the ESSAIS program at the CNDC of Angers and holds a Master’s degree in choreographic research (Paris 8). As a performer she has collaborated with DD Dorvillier, Anne Lise Le Gac, Lenio Kaklea, Bryan Campbell, Dinis Machado, Emmanuelle Huynh, Ana Rita Teodoro.

In her own work she develops a physical practice specific to each project and seeks states of presence that result from a constant negotiation between contrasting or even contradictory tasks, fictions or universes, often questioning notions of authority and censorship. She creates herself the sound environment of her performances which becomes her main dramaturgical tool.

She received the Jardin d’Europe prize at the ImpulsTanz festival in 2016 for her solo A kind of fierce. She then created the solo BSTRD (2018), the duo Zeppelin Bend (2021) with Natali Mandila, the performance Rave to Lament (2021), the solo Mourn Baby Mourn (2022), and most recently Bless This Mess (2024). She is an associate artist at the National Choreographic Center of Caen in Normandy for 2022-2024 and in the Master Program EXERCE in CCN de Montpellier.

Credits

Conception: Katerina Andreou

Performance: Katerina Andreou, Lily Brieu Nguyen, Baptiste Cazaux, Mélissa Guex,

Sound: Katerina Andreou avec Cristian Sotomayor

Lights and set: Yannick Fouassier

Outside Eye: Costas Kekis

Technical direction: Thomas Roulleau Gallais

Production – touring: Elodie Perrin

Thanks: Jean-Baptiste Veyret-Logerias, Laura Garnier

Production: BARK

Coproducers: CCN de Caen en Normandie dans le cadre du dis­po­si­tif « Artiste asso­cié », Kunstenfestivaldesarts Brussels, Pavillon ADC – Genève (CH), Athens Epidaurus Festival, T2G théâtre de Genevilliers, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Next Festival, les Subs – lieu vivant d’expériences artis­tiques, Lyon, Maison de la Danse, Lyon – Pôle européen de Création –, KLAP Maison pour la danse à Marseille, 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,
Residencies: Espace Pasolini, Kunstencentrum BUDA Kortrijk

With the support of Direction des Affaires Culturelles Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, la Caisse des Dépôts, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels

Bless This Mess was created in part at the watermill center – a laboratory for performance in april 2023

  • Duration 55'
  • Doors opening at 21:45

    • This show is enjoyed while seated, does not include poetic audio description, involves the use of strobe lights and very loud sounds, and is recommended for people over the age of 14. If you have specific needs, please write to us at farout@base.milano.it

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