31st Kalamata International Dance Festival-KAT VÁLASTUR/Dive Into You

In the performance Dive Into You, choreographer and performer Kat Válastur hybridises the function of female oracles with the processes of photosynthesis and tree growth. Válastur creates a mythical correlation between the way female oracles transmit the divine by entering an ecstatic state and the way trees convert light into energy and oxygen through photosynthesis.

The transposition of this analogy into the theatrical space results in a fascinating solo that manifests the quantum and temporal dimensions of this condition through rhythm, voice, and elements of primordial energy such as vibration, spirals, and cyclicity.

Inspired by the deep, repetitive sounds of a wooden percussion instrument—the semantron—which Válastur brings to the stage through a wooden construction she activates with her movements, she creates a dance piece poised at the threshold between concert and choreography. The work is accompanied by a musical composition from musician Aho Ssan and vocals by Válastur herself.

Dive Into You emerges as a living oracle that seeks to connect us with our most mysterious and tender inner self.