Kat Válastur
Photo: Leon Eixenberger
Kat Válastur is a choreographer and dancer born in Athens (Greece) and based in Berlin.
Her works are defined by the creation of a distinctive dance and visual language in which our desires, fiction and reality merge into speculative notions creating highly intense atmospheres that challenge the senses with the shifting and intimate qualities.
She was acclaimed as a promising talent for dance by the “Tanz” magazine (2016), was a nominee for the George-Tabori award (2017), and was an invited artist at the Institute of spatial experimentation – a project initiated by Olafur Eliasson and the University of the Arts, Berlin. In her latest series of works, “The staggered dances of beauty,” the digital process of ‘morphing’ where an image or a shape transforms into a seamless transition to another, becomes a kinetic technique of bodily transformations.
Her latest group piece, “Arcana Swarm,” was supported by the Foundation Hermès in the frame of “New Settings,” and was presented as a work in progress in the context of Live Works -Performance Act Award, volume 7, in Centrale Fies, Italy (2019). It premiered in Berlin at HAU Hebbel am Ufer, in November 2019, and later the same month staged in Paris at the Théâtre de la Cité internationale, as part of the program of Théâtre de la Ville, Paris.
