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Stellar Fauna
Recording: 2018-11-24 , HAU3 Hebbel am Ufer (Video © Walter Bickmann)

Kat Válastur

Stellar Fauna

HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU3)

Production Details / Press Releases

After a showcase and the premiere of “Rasp Your Soul” in 2017, HAU Hebbel am Ufer presents the new premiere by choreographer and performer Kat Válastur. With “Stellar Fauna” she continues the series “The staggered dances of beauty” in which she develops the kinetic technique of morphing and reevaluates the production of mythology as tool to process contemporary questions. Divided into two parts, a video installation and a performance, in “Stellar Fauna” – similarly to her last work – two dancers gradually embody mutant and digital attributes in a poetic way. They enact a kind of contemporary mythological being and repeat a mysterious mantra: “We are waiting for the floods to break free although that would be the end of us.” In a set suggesting an untamed ecosystem, the boundaries between their private and social behaviour are suspended. “Stellar Fauna” is the creation of an uncanny world made by our world. A discourse about bodies in the wilderness of our time.

“We are waiting for the floods to break free, although that would be the end of us / It feels so natural! / Thank you! / Extinction / And the night fell like a thousand whispers / This is alive! / Blow / We drank their tears”

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[Source: play bill]

TFB Nr. 1259

Cast & Credits

Concept, script & choreography: Kat Válastur
Performance: Maria Zimpel, Harumi Terayama
Lighting design & light constructions: Martin Beeretz
Sound design & music: Constantin Engelmann, Tobias Purfürst
Set design & sculptures: Leon Eixenberger
Additional set & artistic consultant: Filippos Kavakas
Costume concept: Kat Válastur
Assistance costume & realisation: Suzan Çamlik, Ottavia Castellotti
Assistence choreography: Markella Demeritz
Video installation: film directed by Kat Válastur
Camera & editing: Clara Jo
Voices: Rebecca Lane, Evelyn Saylor
Production management: HAU Artist Office / Sabine Seifert
Touring & distribution: HAU Artist Office / Nicole Schuchardt

Production: Kat Válastur / HAU Hebbel am Ufer
Co-production: Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, Théâtre de la Ville (Paris), Theater Freiburg, Fonds Transfabrik – deutsch-französischer Fonds für darstellende Künste
Funded by: Senate Department for Culture and Europe.

HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU3)

Tempelhofer Ufer 10
10963 Berlin

hebbel-am-ufer.de
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Tickets: +49 (0)30 259 004 27
tickets@hebbel-am-ufer.de

Video Documentation

The video documentation is produced on behalf of the Senate Department for Culture and Europe. The purpose of this contract is to document productions in the field of contemporary dance in Berlin. The master recordings are archived by the University Library of the Berlin University of Arts. Copies of the recordings on DVD are available for viewing exclusively in the reference collections of the following archives (at media desks in these institutions):

University Library of the Berlin University of Arts
Mediathek für Tanz und Theater des Internationalen Theaterinstituts / Mime Centrum Berlin
Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin (HZT)

Kat Válastur / Trailers and Video Documentations

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