Kat Válastur's Stellar Fauna at Theatre HAU Hebel am Ufer

By Katja Vaghi, 23 November 2018

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Reviewed at Hebbel am Ufer: HAU1, Berlin on 21 November 2018

Stellar Fauna (Kat Válastur)

Whispering stories of butterflies and crows: Story, story, die.

Katja Vaghi, 29th August

The German premiere of Alan Lucien Øyen's Story, story, die.: manipulation, fragmented truths and lies for Tanz im August.

****1

Listening to Nature’s Whispers: Schubot & Gradinger at the Hau

Katja Vaghi, 28th February

With nature as a a co-creator, Angela Schubot’s and Jared Gradinger’s The Nature of Us premieres at HAU.

***11

moons in a dark sky: Ligia Lewis’ Water Will (in Melody)

Katja Vaghi, 29th November

A HAU am Hebel’s production, Ligia Lewis’ Water Will (in Melody) is surely a raw and direct, disturbingly grotesque, beautifully poetic and unwittingly explicit journey to an unfortunately unknown destination.

***11

Out of the black box: Projecting [space[ Meg Stuart / Damaged Good

Katja Vaghi, 7th October

Projecting [space[ by Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods is a two hour immersion between dance and performance art, a way of finding the Other within us, presented at the Reinbeckhallen for HAU.

****1

Rosas: Bach6Cellosuiten

Katja Vaghi, 9th December

Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker’s, Jean-Guihen Queyras’ and Rosas’ Mitten wir im Leben sind/Bach6Cellosuiten presented at HAU 1 is a raw but very sleek work on Bach’s milestone of Western music.

*****

Quantum matters

Katja Vaghi, 21st August

Gilles Jobin’s Quantum (2013) is a choreographic introduction to the mysterious beauties and oddities, generally beyond general comprehension, of the particles world researched at the large hadron collider in Geneva.

***11

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Katja Vaghi

With a background in Dance Studies, Literature and Linguistics (MA English Studies from Zurich University and PhD in dance philosophy from the University of Roehampton in London) and a formation as a modern dancer (Ballet Arts, NYC), Katja is a freelance dancer, choreographer, dance researcher and dramaturge currently living in Berlin.

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