Katerina Andreou

Born in Athens, Katerina Andreou is based in France. A graduate of the Athens Law School and the Athens National Dance School, she completed the Essais program at the CNDC in Angers and holds a Master’s degree in choreographic research (Paris 8). As a performer, she has worked with DD Dorvillier, Anne Lise Le Gac, Lenio Kaklea, Bryan Campbell, Dinis Machado, Emmanuelle Huynh and Ana Rita Teodoro. In her work, she develops a physical practice which is specific to each project. Katerina Andreou seeks states of presence that result from constant negotiation between contrasting and even contradictory tasks, fictions and universes, often challenging notions of authority and censorship. She creates the sound environment for all her pieces, which becomes her principal dramaturgical tool. She was awarded the Jardin d’Europe prize at the Impulstanz festival in 2016 for her solo A Kind of Fierce. She went on to create the solo BSTRD (2018), the duo Zeppelin Bend (2021) with Natali Mandila, the performance Rave to Lament (2021), Mourn Baby Mourn (2022), and most recently the group piece Bless this mess (2024). Katerina Andreou is an associate artist with the Caen CCN from 2022 to 2024, and with the CCN de Montpellier master class.

“In this workshop, two axes are aligned with two questions that occupy me more and more, especially when I dance with others: What negotiation do I make when I dance “in dialogue” with others? (Or how do I create a terrain with them in all the relational possibilities that this word implies?) Where does this notion of expressivity that people sometimes use to talk about bodies, movements, dances, performative attitudes that touch them fit in, and how can this be combined with a rather direct or frank gesture? These may seem like sectorial questions, but when we talk about dance, we’re talking about bodies and, above all, people. They may seem vague, but they’ve become the driving force behind my choreographic creations involving a group of performers. So in this week-long workshop, I’ll be proposing practices that can become useful for exploring potential responses, and bits of material already explored or yet to be tried, that would reveal their importance.”