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In conversation with Kat Válastur
Kat Válastur (born in Athens, Greece ) is a choreographer and performer based in Berlin. Her work is defined by the creation of a distinctive dance as well as visual language. In her creations our desires, fiction and reality merge into speculative notions creating highly intense atmospheres that challenge the senses with their shifting and intimate qualities.
In 2013/14 she was an invited artist at the Institute of spatial experimentation a project initiated by Olafur Eliasson and the University of the Arts, Berlin. During the program she began researching on a new series of works under the title The marginal sculptures of Newtopia exploring the encounter between the body and a virtual topology it inhabits. The concept of a fictional virtual space yet unknown applied to these creations a speculative character. During her participation as an invited artist she took part in the exhibition-festival of future nows at the Neue nationalgalerie Berlin (2014) with the work We were better in the future in which she transformed the space of the museum into a working space for her upcoming project.
She studied dance at the Hellenic School of Dance in Athens, at the Trisha Brown Studios in New York on a Fulbright scholarship, and received a Master Degree from the (SODA) Master Program at the Inter-University for Dance in Berlin.
Her work are presented internationally in venues such as: HAU Hebbel-am-Ufer, Théâtre de la Ville ( Paris), Recontres Choregraphiques de Seine-Saint-Denis, Theatre de Nimes, Tanz im August festival, Aerowaves, Springdance festival, Tanzquartier Wien, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, STUK, Hellerau, Theatre festival basel, Athens and Epidaurus festival, B Motion festival, The Place, Onassis Cultural Centre, Madrid en Danza festival, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Serralves museum, Julidans, among others.
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By MovementtalksKat Válastur (born in Athens, Greece ) is a choreographer and performer based in Berlin. Her work is defined by the creation of a distinctive dance as well as visual language. In her creations our desires, fiction and reality merge into speculative notions creating highly intense atmospheres that challenge the senses with their shifting and intimate qualities.
In 2013/14 she was an invited artist at the Institute of spatial experimentation a project initiated by Olafur Eliasson and the University of the Arts, Berlin. During the program she began researching on a new series of works under the title The marginal sculptures of Newtopia exploring the encounter between the body and a virtual topology it inhabits. The concept of a fictional virtual space yet unknown applied to these creations a speculative character. During her participation as an invited artist she took part in the exhibition-festival of future nows at the Neue nationalgalerie Berlin (2014) with the work We were better in the future in which she transformed the space of the museum into a working space for her upcoming project.
She studied dance at the Hellenic School of Dance in Athens, at the Trisha Brown Studios in New York on a Fulbright scholarship, and received a Master Degree from the (SODA) Master Program at the Inter-University for Dance in Berlin.
Her work are presented internationally in venues such as: HAU Hebbel-am-Ufer, Théâtre de la Ville ( Paris), Recontres Choregraphiques de Seine-Saint-Denis, Theatre de Nimes, Tanz im August festival, Aerowaves, Springdance festival, Tanzquartier Wien, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, STUK, Hellerau, Theatre festival basel, Athens and Epidaurus festival, B Motion festival, The Place, Onassis Cultural Centre, Madrid en Danza festival, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Serralves museum, Julidans, among others.