In the performance Dive Into You, choreographer and performer Kat Válastur hybridises the function of female oracles with the processes of photosynthesis and tree growth. Válastur creates a mythical correlation between the way in which female oracles transmit the divine by entering an ecstatic state and the way in which, in nature, the tree converts light into energy and oxygen through photosynthesis. The transposition of this analogy as a condition into the theatrical space creates a fascinating solo that manifests the quantum and temporal dimensions and aspects of this condition through rhythm, voice and elements of primordial energy such as vibration, spiral, cyclicity. Inspired by the deep, repetitive sounds of a wooden percussion instrument, the semantron which the choreographer brings on stage through the creation of a wooden construction that she activates through her movements, she creates a dance piece on the threshold of a concert, accompanied by the musical composition of musician Aho Ssan and the vocals of Válastur herself. Dive into you emerges as an oracle that seeks to connect us with our most mysterious and tender part.
Concept, Choreography, Performance and Vocals: Kat Válastur / Music / composer : Aho Ssan / Sound Design: Davide Luciani / Lighting Design & Technical Direction: Martin Beeretz /Lighting Assistance: : Raoul 2000 / Choreographic and Dramaturgical Assistance: Michalis Angelidis / Stage Design: Nadja Sofie Eller / Platform Manufacture: Alex Felder / Vocal Coach: Marie Gailey / Production Management: Saskia Schoenmaker / Vocal Recordings at Morphine Raum
»Dive into You«, a production by Kat Válastur / Co-produktion HAU Hebbel am Ufer / Centre Chorégraphique National de Grenoble. Supported by O ESPAÇO DO TEMPO. Funded by Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe. Supported by the NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ Coproduction Fund for Dance, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.