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En Danseuse - Katerina Andreou
En danseuse is a piece of work choreographed, based on a creative process that focuses on the body of the choreographer-dancer. A series of collaborations of Alain Michard with several choreographers from different generations, and varied backgrounds led to the birth of this piece, a ‘collection of dances’ with scenography using sound and video.
En danseuse is made of a scenographic installation which combines images of dance and sounds. Is it thought of as a confrontation between two choreographical forms, but also between two memories. It offers to audiences several ways of looking at the work, and appeals to their own memories of dance.
En danseuse is based on the idea that the body of the choreographer is the very source of their work, and carries within himself/herself a true History of dance. Vast and unique, this dance History is made of dances which have been lived, but also dances that have been seen or dreamt, and of everything that has fit in with ‘choreographic material’.
En danseuse questions the role of images, and how they are active both in memory and in the choreographic gesture.
Katerina Andreou graduated from the Athens Law School and the Greek State School of Dance. She attended the master programme on choreography ESSAIS at the CNDC Angers (dir. E. Huynh). She collaborated among others with DD Dorvillier, Emmanuel Huynh, Anne Lise Le Gac, Lenio Kaklea, Ana Rita Teodoro, Bryan Campbell, and Jocelyn Cottencin. In her own choreographic work, she is interested in the level of negotiation between autonomy and authority. She was awarded the Prix Jardin d’Europe 2016 award at the ImpulsTanz Festival for her solo A kind of fierce. She is Panorama Artist in the DNA network-Departures and Arrivals.
