Válastur, Kat 1948- (Nombre personal)

VIAF http://viaf.org/viaf/258540285/#Válastur,_Kat_ca._20./21._Jh. Kat Válastur is a Berlin based choreographer and performer. Fragmentation,time lapse, entropy and virtuality are some of the notions that emerge from her dance works, through the creation of a specific fictional force field in which the performers are exposed to. In 2009 she created Lang, a duet about time and the way it can be reflected through dance. In 2010 she continued with the thematic of time in a series of works inspired by the Homer’s Odyssey. The project, Oh! Deep Sea manifested in a corpus of four works: Corpus I and Corpus IV (2010), Corpus II (2011), and Corpus III (co-produced and presented by HAU Hebbel am Ufer/Berlin, 2012). In 2013/2014 she was an invited artist ( grantee) at the Institut für Raumexperimente a project initiated by Olafur Eliasson and the University of the Arts, Berlin. In the context of the program, she started working on a new series, The marginal sculptures of Newtopia, exploring the encounter between the body and a ritual topology it inhabits. The series includes the works GLAND ( 2014) Ah! Oh! A contemporary ritual ( 2014) and was completed in 2016 with the dance piece OILinity, a poetic reflection upon the problem on dependence of western societies on crude oil and its consequences on human and nature. All three works were co-produced and presented by HAU Hebbel am Ufer/Berlin. As part of her creative process she utilizes personal diagrams, scores drawings and texts that she creates for each dance piece. In 2016 she was acclaimed as a promising talent for dance by the magazine “tanz”. She was a nominee for the George- Tabori-Award in 2017 Her work has been presented in venues such as: The Place (UK),Tanz im August Festival (Germany), Recontres Choregraphiques de Seine-Saint-Denis (France), Theatre de Nimes (France), Springdance Festival (Holland), Tanzquartier Wien (Austria), Künstlerhaus Mousonturm (Germany), HAU Hebbel-am-Ufer Theatre (Germany), Hellerau Theatre (Germany), Athens and Epidaurus Festival (Greece), B Motion Festival (Italy), Madrid en Danza Festival (Spain), Kalamata International Dance Festival (Greece), among many others. She studied dance at the Hellenic School of Dance, at the Trisha Brown Studios in New York on a Fulbright scholarship, and received a Master Degree from the (SODA) Master Program at the Inter-University for Dance in Berlin. http://katvalastur.com/