Katerina Andreou

Cie BARK

Bless This Mess

Residency

January 8 to 12, 2024

CCNR's dance studio, Rillieux-la-Pape

As part of the Accueil-studio program

“We’re too close to the fire to discern what’s burning.”

In an attempt to recover strength but also a space of confidence for indispensable resistance, Katerina Andreou asks herself the question: how can confusion be made into a tool, a strategy for creation?

For her first group piece, the artist, dancer, choreographer and musician is basing herself on what she calls “constant noise”, an autobiographical state situated in a society whose reference points seem to shift to such an extent that instability and doubt are inevitable.

Bless This Mess is born in this bubbling space, full of blind spots, which creates momentum and an irrepressible desire to act/react, with others. In this piece, Katerina Andreou attempts to place choreographic and sound work in a place of necessity, and to leave room for absurdity and play – the only way to create a genuine space of respite and joy.

Premieres: June 6 + 7, 2024 at KLAP Maison pour la danse à Marseille

Casting

Concept: Katerina Andreou
Performers: Katerina Andreou, Lily Brieu, Baptiste Cazaux, Melissa Guex,
Sound design: Katerina Andreou avec Cristian Sotomayor
Set design and Lighting: Yannick Fouassier
Outside view: Costas Kekis
Technical direction: Thomas Roulleau Gallais
Production & distribution: Elodie Perrin

Production: BARK
Coproduction: CCN de Caen en Normandie dans le cadre du dispositif « Artiste associé », KLAP Maison pour la danse à Marseille (résidence de finalisation 2024), ADC Genève, La Bâtie – festival de Genève, 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 –, 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
Residences: Espace Pasolini, Kunstencentrum BUDA Courtrai

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

The creation of Bless This Mess began at the watermill center – a laboratory for performance in April 2023.