In residence at CCN
June 17 to 28, 2024
Premiere in December 2024 at HAU, Berlin
In residence at CCN
June 17 to 28, 2024
Premiere in December 2024 at HAU, Berlin
An exploration of the magical world of clay and ceramics through the female body, a receptacle with radical potential for a new world to come.
Kat Válastur (b. Athens, Greece) is a choreographer and performer based in Berlin. Her choreographic works are defined by the creation of transformative experiences on stage. In her work, bodies manifest the way power structures are experienced and embodied. Using myth as a tool, she creates a state charged with historical, fictional, social and personal experience. This mythic construction, which channels reality, becomes a speculative topos and force field that the performers inhabit. Her precise choreographies are defined by the way bodies are subjected to power, and the way they slowly transform it into a force, a position of resistance. The choreographic conditions she creates, which she calls "force fields", enable her and the performers to construct a choreographic language that has its own characteristics and whose central element is transformation.
In residence at CCN
June 17 to 28, 2024
Premiere in December 2024 at HAU, Berlin
In residence at CCN
June 17 to 28, 2024
Premiere in December 2024 at HAU, Berlin
Delicate People is a project initiated by Ruth Childs and Cécile Bouffard to combine their respective practices of dance and sculpture. Delicate People is a series of vignettes dealing with figures and motifs of troubling identities and adjusted gestures.
Ruth Childs delves into the intimate layers of her physical and emotional memories, triggered by the great classical music tunes, from Beethoven to Tchaikovsky or Dvorak, that she listened to as a child. Programmed at the IMPACT FESTIVAL 2023.
Ruth Childs proposes to make accessible the hyper-presence of a body in performance, the present moment, as well as the collective aspect of preparing for a performance and experiencing this ephemeral moment. Through the body and its use in movement, participants will share a collective yet intimate experience to connect with their own creativity. Guided by the choreographer, they will draw on an unusual repertoire to nourish their imaginations. In this way, grimace, color and melody will become choreographic tools that will lead them to create performances in natural spaces. For further information: helene.azzaro@ccn-grenoble.com
For several years now, Ruth Childs has been working on a project to re-create the early works of her aunt, Lucinda Childs, an emblematic figure of American postmodern dance and the minimalist movement. On December 13, 2023, she worked with students in the specialized dance cycle at the Grenoble Conservatory, inviting them to work on this choreographic vocabulary: simple gestures, a taste for repetition and variation, devices that play on trajectories. On March 6, 2024, she will once again be working with Grenoble Conservatory dance students, this time exploring the choreographic material of her last two pieces, Fantasia and Blast!