STELLAR FAUNA
After a showcase and the premiere of “Rasp Your Soul” in 2017, HAU Hebbel am Ufer presents the new premiere by choreographer and performer Kat Válastur. Divided into two parts, a video installation and a performance, in “Stellar Fauna” – similarly to her last work – two dancers gradually embody mutant and digital attributes in a poetic way. They repeat a mysterious mantra: “We are waiting for the floods to break free although that would be the end of us.” In a set suggesting an untamed ecosystem, the boundaries between their private and social behaviour are suspended. “Stellar Fauna” is the creation of an uncanny world made by our world. A discourse about bodies in the wilderness of our time.
Concept/ Script/ Choreography Kat Válastur
Performed by Maria Zimpel, Harumi Terayama
Set design and sculptures: Leon Eixenberger
Artistic consultant: Filippos Kavakas
Sound design: Constantin Engelmann, Tobias Purfürst
Light design and light constructions: Martin Beeretz
Costume concept : Kat VálasturCostume assistance and realisation: Ottavia Castellotti Suzan Çamlik
Production management HAU Artist Office: Sabine Seifert
Touring & distribution HAU Artist Office: Nicole Schuchardt
Production: Kat Válastur / HAU Hebbel am Ufer, co-production: Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, Théâtre de la Ville (Paris), Theater Freiburg, Fonds Transfabrik – deutsch-französischer Fonds für darstellende Künste.
Funded by: Senate Department for Culture and Europe.