Rasp Your Soul

With  »Rasp Your Soul« Kat Válastur introduces the series »The Staggered Dances of Beauty« in which she reevaluates the production of mythology as a tool to process contemporary questions. The performer in Rasp Your Soul enacts a some sort of a contemporary mythological being. Inside an uncanny environment he unleashes a series of kinetic monuments as altered codes of processed cultural signs. Ruins of language from capitalist digital culture transform into mantras that initiate precarious gestures, fading slang whispers, voice interruptions, molecular kinetics. We encounter elusive identities expressing different types of realness. The space becomes a field of tension between language and the visual connotations of fluid complex demands and input from the outside.

Rasp Your Soul partly a dance piece, partly a choreographed concert, is a manifestation of the elusive. It builds up the narrative of a post-mythological space in which a humanoid with a »sensitive skin« makes us think about our flesh and bones.

A production by Kat Válastur in coproduction with HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Onassis CulturalFoundation, Theater Freiburg, Kunstencentrum STUK Leuven, Stichting Châtel sur Place Amsterdam.Funded by: Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe and NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NET (NPN)/ Coproduction funding dance supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. With the support of: TATWERK | Performative Forschung, Uferstudios, Tanzfabrik Berlin and ada Studio. Presented in the context of [DNA] Departures and Arrivals with support by Culture Programme of the European Union