MoonJar
In “MoonJar,” choreographer and performer Kat Válastur and musician Aho Ssan create a poetic interplay of sound and movement that condenses into an intense, almost ceremonial performance. Inspired by ancient creation myths and the materiality of clay, they transform the theater into a resonant vessel.
Within this mythical space, Kat Válastur performs a ritual of renewal. Like an exhumator, she lifts magical ceramic objects that resemble relics and bones, crafted by the ceramist Latika Nehra. Her choreography engages in dialogue with the relics and the sounds they convey, referencing the first inhabitants of the planet. Válastur’s spiral and circular movements trace arcs that echo the cycles of the moon and the helical twists of DNA.
The performance is accompanied by the subtle nuances of Válastur’s singing and a circular, vibrating metal instrument that defines the space of the ritual. Aho Ssan’s immersive soundscape is expanded by contributions from Sam Slater and Jakob Vasak, in which Kat Válastur’s instinctive choreography weaves together the archaic and the contemporary. “MoonJar” becomes a vessel of radical potential for a new and better world.
kat February 28th, 2026
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Dive into You
In the performance Dive Into You, choreographer and performer Kat Válastur hybridises the function of female oracles with the processes of photosynthesis and tree growth. Válastur creates a mythical correlation between the way in which female oracles transmit the divine by entering an ecstatic state and the way in which, in nature, the tree converts light into energy and oxygen through photosynthesis. The transposition of this analogy as a condition into the theatrical space creates a fascinating solo that manifests the quantum and temporal dimensions and aspects of this condition through rhythm, voice and elements of primordial energy such as vibration, spiral, cyclicity. Inspired by the deep, repetitive sounds of a wooden percussion instrument, the semantron which the choreographer brings on stage through the creation of a wooden construction that she activates through her movements, she creates a dance piece on the threshold of a concert, accompanied by the musical composition of musician Aho Ssan and the vocals of Válastur herself. Dive into you emerges as an oracle that seeks to connect us with our most mysterious and tender part.
kat May 11th, 2025
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Strong-Born
“STRONG-BORN” is the literal translation of the name Iphigenia. In her new work, Kat Válastur takes inspiration from the sacrificial story of “Iphigenia in Aulis” and the ‘anastenaria‘, an archaic ritual of Northern Greece, and channels them into a dance that aspires to transform a demand for sacrifice into a rebellious resistance against it. The movements of the three female performers are determined by sound-making elements attached to their bodies and the resonating interplay with a circular wooden platform. Along with the percussionist Valentina Magaletti the seemingly sacrificial ritual reveals a sonic female force against disposability and into empowerment.
kat July 14th, 2023
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Diana,Even
An arrow hits a tree in a forest. The hit sets the arrow into an infinite vibration. The vibration creates ripples on the still water and disturbs its surface. At that moment, Diana, the goddess of hunt and protector of flora and fauna, falls dead. This violent redirection of the myth and its historical course creates a new mythical time-space. Diana now exists simultaneously as hunter and prey, killed and reborn. In Kat Válastur’s new choreography the four dancers Xenia Koghilaki, Malika Lamwersiek, Ogbitse Omagbemi, Tamar Sonn and four polyphonic singers from the Greek female vocal group Pleiades embody these circles of action bring the archaic into the present, on a stage created by Leon Eixenberger and with the light design by Martin Beeretz. “Diana, Even” takes the event beyond mythical construction and thus suggests a new reading of History that integrates mythical and historical space into the reality of womanhood.
kat January 15th, 2022
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Why am I still choosing choreography..
Why am I still choosing choreography as my way of expression in art? I persist on the body as a medium through which I try to express myself. Not myself as an identity, but myself as someone setting questions upon what makes the identity profound. I believe that what makes an identity profound, is the performing body. I consider the performing body to be in an extremely exposed transitional state, thus I call it the “heroic body”. I don’t only want to show its vulnerability by exposing it, but most of all its coherence, its continuity through art, sociology, history, and mythology with the inner springs of existence. The action I have to fulfill by the process of choreography arises directly from the above.
That is why the choreography itself must maintain a constant process of revealing the heroic body. On the other hand the heroic body itself offers further possibilities upon which the choreography can build a unique language. These possibilities are provided by the basic structure of a body – its skeleton, muscles, figure in reaction to conditions, thoughts, emotions – leading to a body marked by an internal personal rhythm and the desire to narrate. That is why the use of any other language is insufficient.
It is almost impossible to clarify the dynamics of my movements by using words. In my work, form should be able to have different interpretations, based on the dynamics which assign to it. I am trying to give movement a form that will allow it to contain the ambivalence within a human body. Given that choreography is for me the only obligation of the self towards what is considered the self, the more I disfigure things, the more consistent I can be towards the tendencies of this encounter. My goal is to give these tendencies the human grace that characterizes them.
yannikos08_kx4u0pfd January 17th, 2016
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The body in the choreographic process..
The body in the choreographic process, trying to reach perfection, remains incomplete. A body in the process of transcending cannot be but a tragic body. Knowing that, I choose to praise it. This admission leads to (my) truth and informs the structural elements of my work. This admission is my only way in the process of achieving a subjective critical thought. The “only way” doesn’t correspond to limitation of choices but rather to the realization of the limit. I try to reach a point of consciousness in which my “system” (as creator and creation) can find itself in an arena of conflicts and possibilities.
yannikos08_kx4u0pfd January 17th, 2016
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About Oh! Deep sea-corpus III
About Oh! Deep sea-corpus III
Inspired by Nekyia,Oh! Deep sea-corpus III is a work in 6 chapters each chapter has a graphic reflection
(Diagram)
Chapter one: Becoming
Chapter two: My portrait
Chapter three: My night
Chapter four: A DREAM
Chapter five: Hu(ge)manity
Chapter six: I
yannikos08_kx4u0pfd January 16th, 2016
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A gland is an organ in an animal’s body..
A gland is an organ in an animal’s body that synthesizes a substance for release of substances such as hormones or breast milk, often into the bloodstream (endocrine gland) or into cavities inside the body or its outer surface (exocrine gland).
yannikos08_kx4u0pfd January 15th, 2016
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