Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm

“I step out of the projection, in order to see the landscape I have been wandering. Realizing that the version of my self now writing these words exists simultaneously with the one who is wandering inside the Gland. Events are experienced in parallel universes, while an event looses its integrity and asks to be rediscovered. Familiarity is replaced by reproductions of familiarity finally reaching the unfamiliar. I produce versions of the same journey infinitely, until I stagger, and reinvent myself in different variations. A tiger’s leap, the stillness of the statue, shinning asphalt on a rainy night, all belong to the same category of events. Now, step out of the projection and tell me where you are.”

By creating movements contradicting its nature the Greek choreographer and performer turns the dancing body into a generator of utopias and fictions.

No language skills required.

(dimension a): Concept, Choreography and performance: Kat Válastur * Set designer: Ulrich Leitner * Sound: Lambros Pigounis * Light designer: Martin Beeretz * Video: Iosif Lycakis * Costume: Lydia Sonderegger * Artistic collaboration: Thomas Schaupp, Stephen Zepke, Nikos Flessas * Assistant: Ania Nowak * (dimension b): Concept: Kat Válastur in collaboration with Lamb and Lamp * Texts: Kat Válastur * Sound: Lambros Pigounis * Video: Iosif Lykakis.
GLAND is a production by Kat Válastur, co-produced by HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin and Tanzquartier Wien.
Funded by the Governing Mayor of Berlin – Senat’s Chancellery – Cultural Affairs and Fonds Darstellende Künste. Supported by the Institut für Raumexperimente.

In the frame of Hollins University at the Mousonturm. In the frame of the Hollins University at Mousonturm. Financed by Hollins University. In cooperation with The Forsythe Company, Mousonturm and University for Music and Performating Arts Frankfurt.