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March 2025

  • 06 : Bergen (NO) - HOW ROMANTIC
  • 07 : Bergen (NO) - HOW ROMANTIC
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October 2025

HOW ROMANTIC

Carte Blanche

Concept and choreography Katerina Andreou
Artistic assistant Costas Kekis
Sound Design Katerina Andreou & Cristián Sotomayor
Musical arrangements Cristián Sotomayor
Light Design Yannick Fouassier
Costume Design Indrani Balgobin
Photos Øystein Haara
Video David Alræk

Creation for 14 dancers
Created on March 2025

HOW ROMANTIC is a deeply ironic commentary on how we experience struggles of life as a spectacle – both in their grand gestures and smallest details. We witness an intense marathon, echoing the dance marathons during the Great Depression in the US.

There are no winners or losers – only 14 seasoned dancers, in couples, alone, or as a herd of horses, negotiating their way through movement and sound in a relentless choreography. Through feats of strength, joy, and fatigue, they urge each other in an energetic mix of abandon and rigorous discipline. It’s a collision of order and chaos in a fevered search for something real.

HOW ROMANTIC creates space for reflection – on power and relations, intimacy, forced entertaining and maybe the role of love as the ultimate finishing line for any race, even when it feels unattainable.

Katerina Andreou

As a performer, she has worked with artists such as DD Dorvillier, Anne Lise Le Gac, Lenio Kaklea, Bryan Campbell, Dinis Machado, Emmanuelle Huynh, and Ana Rita Teodoro.

Her choreographic language aims to achieve states of presence arising from the constant interaction between various opposing, even contradictory, tasks, fictions and universes, frequently challenging concepts of authority and censorship. She designs a distinct physical practice for each project and composes the sound environment for her works, which becomes a central element of her dramaturgy.

In 2016, she won the Jardin d’Europe prize at the ImpulsTanz festival for her solo «A kind of fierce». She subsequently created the solo «BSTRD» in 2018 and the duet «Zeppelin Bend» in 2020 with Natali Mandila. Her most recent creation, «Mourn Baby Mourn», was presented in 2022.

In the repertoire