{"id":104,"date":"2021-02-25T01:13:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T00:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dance-on.net\/en\/en\/?p=104"},"modified":"2022-10-14T11:03:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T09:03:52","slug":"kat-valastur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dance-on.net\/en\/choreographers\/kat-valastur\/","title":{"rendered":"KAT V\u00c1LASTUR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kat V\u00e1lastur is a Berlin-based choreographer and performer. She studied at the Hellenic School of Dance, received a Fulbright Scholarship to study at Trisha Brown\u2019s studio in New York, and gained a Masters degree from the SODA Masters Program at the Inter-University Centre for Dance in Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>Fragmentation, diverted architectures, time lapses, entropy and virtuality are some of the concepts she addresses in her dance works. Her creative process involves diagrams, hand-drawn scores and texts which she creates for each new work.<\/p>\n<p>From 2013-2014 she was a grantee artist in the educational program of the Institut f\u00fcr Raumexperimente, an educational research project by \u00d3lafur El\u00edasson in collaboration with the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). During the program, she began researching her new series of choreographies <em>The marginal sculptures of Newtopia<\/em>. The series was co-produced and presented by HAU Hebbel am Ufer and includes the works <em>GLAND<\/em> (2014) and <em>Ah! Oh! A contemporary ritual<\/em> (2014). It was completed in 2016 with<em> OILinity<\/em>, a poetic piece on western societies\u2019 problematic dependence on crude oil and its dire consequences for humanity and nature.<\/p>\n<p>Kat V\u00e1lastur\u2019s work is presented internationally.\u00a0<span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"margin: 0px;color: #333333;line-height: 107%;font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size: 11pt\">I<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">n 2016 she was acclaimed as a promising talent for dance by the magazine \u201ctanz\u201d and in\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">2017, she was a nominee for the George-Tabori-Award.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>ULTRA CENSORED<\/strong><br \/>\nConcept, Montage &amp; Sound: Kat V\u00e1lastur<br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">Feat. Brit Rodemund<\/span><br \/>\nPremiere: 28th February 2018, DANCE ON Festival, HAU Hebbel am Ufer | Berlin<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-300\" src=\"https:\/\/dance-on.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/11\/Ultra-Censored@Kat-V\u00e1lastur-300x196.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dance-on.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/11\/Ultra-Censored@Kat-V\u00e1lastur-300x196.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/dance-on.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/11\/Ultra-Censored@Kat-V\u00e1lastur-768x502.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/dance-on.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/11\/Ultra-Censored@Kat-V\u00e1lastur-1024x669.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/dance-on.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/11\/Ultra-Censored@Kat-V\u00e1lastur-624x408.jpeg 624w, https:\/\/dance-on.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/11\/Ultra-Censored@Kat-V\u00e1lastur.jpeg 1899w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a9 Kat V\u00e1lastur<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">In Ultra censored the female portrait becomes a field of mystification. The ten-minute film shows Brit Rodemund going through a detailed description of the birth of her daughter while the camera focuses on her facial expressions and gestures. Shot in slow motion, the film takes us into a ciphered universe of gestures in a mythical dimension. Like a contemporary Sphinx with the typical characteristics of beautification, she articulates the enigma of what it is to be a human being in the present tense, while her image is reflected in our eyes.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kat V\u00e1lastur is a Berlin-based choreographer and performer. She studied at the Hellenic School of Dance, received a Fulbright Scholarship to study at Trisha Brown\u2019s studio in New York, and gained a Masters degree from the SODA Masters Program at the Inter-University Centre for Dance in Berlin. 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