Concept, choreography, performance: Kat Válastur / Light design: Martin Beeretz / Assistance light: Vito Walter / Music, sound design: Stavros Gasparatos / Sound engineering: Mizithras, Georgios / Assistance sound: Reei Metz / Set design: Ulrich Leitner / Stage sculpture: Ursula Linke / Costume: Kat Válastur, werkstattkollektiv / Dramaturgical advice: Maja Zimmermann / Assistance choreography: Tamar Sonn / Production management: Sina Kießling / Touring: Mascha Euchner-Martinez
Kat Válastur
Eye, Lash!
- Dance
English /
Understandable without language /
approx. 75 mins.
In an enchanted landscape made of flowers, metal tiles and water, the choreographer and performer Kat Válastur embodies different female archetypes and personas. The French medieval mystic Marguerite Porete, the character of Monkey, the daughter in Tarkovsky’s film “Stalker,” or the figure of Lady Jane Gray portrayed in a painting by Delaroche materialize in this ‘operatic’ confession about the construction of the self and identity. Kat Válastur dives into her personal movement archive and uses her imaginary and visual language to explore the kaleidoscopic experience of a female artist in contemporary times. With the help of the spirits of women of the past and present who have been oppressed, marginalized, abused, burned or decapitated she transforms the space into a zone, an enclosed world and potential home of magical power, charged with female transcendence and spirituality. The film version of “Eye, Lash!” was already released in March 2021 and now the show can finally celebrate its live premiere in Berlin in front of an audience.
Cast
Dates
Past
Credits
Production: Kat Válastur.
Co-production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, December Dance (Concertgebouw & Cultuurcentrum Brugge).
Funded by: Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe, NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ Co-production Fund for Dance, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the program NEUSTART KULTUR.
Location
HAU2
Hallesches Ufer 34, 10963 BerlinThere are two marked parking spots in front of the building. Barrier-free restroom facilities are available. Four relaxed seats are available in the first row of HAU2. Tickets for wheelchair users and accompanying persons can also be booked via the ticketing system. If you need help, please contact our Ticketing & Service team at +49 (0)30 259004-27 or send us an email to
tickets@hebbel-am-ufer.de.
Latest information for arrival:
There is currently a construction site on Hallesches Ufer between Wilhelmstraße and Möckernbrücke underground station. There is a divided replacement route for pedestrians (right) and cyclists (left), which are separated by a yellow ground line. The carriageway is narrowed to one lane.
Travelling to HAU2 via U Hallesches Tor:
If you are coming from Hallesches Tor underground station, you will have to use an alternative footpath from Wilhelmstraße / Hallesches Ufer junction, which is separated from the carriageway by a construction fence – the actual footpath is currently closed. Please note: the alternative route is also used by cyclists. Pedestrians should keep to the right. We therefore currently recommend that visually impaired or blind visitors come to the HAU with an accompanying person.
Arrival HAU2 via U Möckernbrücke:
When you leave Möckernbrücke underground station, please stay on the footpath on the canal side until you reach Hallesches Ufer / Großbeerenstraße junction – the opposite side is currently closed due to construction work.
