MOURN BABY MOURN

In the organizer's words:

International dance guest performance by Katerina Andreou (Lyon) | German premiere

"Mourn Baby Mourn" is a choreographic and sonic piece that emerged out of necessity and follows a tradition that sees mourning as a woman's task and as an expression of the personal and the collective.

The reason is a personal state of the choreographer, which seems to be a mixture of anger and sadness or deep frustration. So deep that she no longer knows where it originally comes from and whether it really belongs to her.

With "Mourn Baby Mourn", Katerina Andreou sends out a distress signal. She attempts to free herself from melancholy by running headlong into a breakdown and crashing into the wall with all her strength, her volume and her doubts. She choreographs a space permeated by a temporal disjunction, an idiosyncratic dialog between the archaic and the contemporary, between a lost past and a lost future. Dancing inspired by pop culture gestures that combine power and boredom in a strange mix, "Mourn Baby Mourn" is an intimate manifesto on mourning and at the same time an extremely lively and exciting artistic assertion.

Concept, Performance: Katerina Andreou
Sound: Katerina Andreou, Cristian Sotomayor
Light & Stage: Yannick Fouassier
Text: Katerina Andreou
Outside Eye: Myrto Katsiki
Video: Arnaud Pottier
Management & Touring: Elodie Perrin

Production: BARK
Co-production: Centre Chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie - direction Alban Richard dans le cadre du dispositif " Artiste associé ", Les SUBS - lieu vivant d'expériences artistiques, Lyon, ADC Genève, Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, La Soufflerie de Rézé, NEXT festival, La Place de la Danse - CDCN Toulouse / Occitanie, dans le cadre du dispositif Accueil Studio, Centre Chorégraphique national Montpellier - Occitanie / Direction Christian Rizzo, Centre Chorégraphique National d'Orléans dans le cadre de l'accueil studio, Centre Chorégraphique National d'Orléans - Direction Maud Le Pladec.

The guest performance is kindly supported by the Institut français and the French Ministry of Culture. Supported by the Department of International Cooperation of the City of Leipzig.