Mourn Baby Mourn
2022 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Choreographer(s) : Andreou, Katerina (Greece)
Present in collection(s): CN D - Spectacles et performances
Video producer : Centre national de la danse
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
Mourn Baby Mourn
2022 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Choreographer(s) : Andreou, Katerina (Greece)
Present in collection(s): CN D - Spectacles et performances
Video producer : Centre national de la danse
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
Mourn Baby Mourn
In her solo performance Mourn Baby Mourn, Katerina Andreou offers an intimate manifesto marked by questions about grief. She emphasises that since ancient times, lamentation has generally been the reserve of women, who accompany the dead with their extreme and ritual expressions of sorrow. In this production, the dancer and choreographer turns to lamentation as a method of dealing with the sadness and frustration of our time. Mourn Baby Mourn is inspired by the concept of hauntology, popularised by the cultural critic Mark Fisher, among others. It refers to an aesthetic rooted in nostalgia and the imitation of the past, a symbol of a culture that is in a state of flux. This is a production in the form of a “distress signal, an attempt to escape melancholy by going into crash mode”.
Source: programme of the CND
Andreou, Katerina
Katerina Andreou is a dancer, choreographer and musician. Born in Greece and now based in France, she is a graduate of the Cndc in Angers and has worked as a performer with, among others, DD Dorvillier, Emmanuelle Huynh and Lenio Kaklea. Awarded the Jardin d’Europe prize at the ImpulsTanz festival in 2016 for A kind of fierce, she has since created the solo BSTRD (2018) as well as the duo Zeppelin Bend (2020) with Natali Mandila.
Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Since 2001, the National Center for Dance (CND) has been making recordings of its shows and educational programming and has created resources from these filmed performances (interviews, danced conferences, meetings with artists, demonstrations, major lessons, symposia specialized, thematic arrangements, etc.).
Mourn Baby Mourn
Artistic direction / Conception : Katerina Andreou
Interpretation : Katerina Andreou
Artistic consultancy / Dramaturgy : Myrto Katsiki
Set design : Yannick Fouassier
Text : Katerina Andreou
Video conception : Arnaud Pottier
Lights : Yannick Fouassier
Sound : Katerina Andreou & Cristian Sotomayor
Other collaborations : Remerciements Natali Mandila, Jocelyn Cottencin & Frédéric Pouillaude - Production et diffusion Elodie Perrin
Production / Coproduction of the video work : Enregistré au CND le 14 juin 2022 dans le cadre de Camping 2022 et des Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis
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