As part of the Romaeuropa Festival, the dancer and choreographer Katerina Andreou, together with the Norwegian National Company of Contemporary Dance Carte Blanche, presents at the Teatro Vascello her new choreographic structure. The performance draws inspiration from the popular dance marathons that took place in the United States between the late 1920s and the 1930s, in which couples of dancers would remain on the floor for even weeks.
Born in Athens and now based in France, Katerina Andreou explores in her work the relationship between movement, music, and performative presence. She gained international recognition with her solo “A Kind of Fierce” (2016), which received the Prix Jardin d’Europe at the ImPulsTanz festival in Vienna. In her projects, she often develops creation-specific physical practices and builds sonic landscapes that form a core component of her stage dramaturgy.
“HOW ROMANTIC” confronts, with a sharp sense of irony, the tendency to turn life’s difficulties into spectacle. In a test of physical and mental endurance in which there are neither winners nor losers, the fourteen performers on stage are called upon to sustain an uninterrupted flow of movement and sound, traversing a choreography made of bursts of energy, sudden collapse, friction, and relaunch. The group supports and depletes itself collectively, within a device that alternates surrender and discipline, impulse and control. What emerges is a feverish landscape, suspended between order and chaos, in which even love remains an ambiguous promise—continuously pursued and continuously questioned.
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