Katja Cheraneva
Katja Cheraneva is a freelance dancer and choreographer based in Frankfurt. Her most recent work explores notions of rehearsal/rehearsing, learning/unlearning, memory, and undoing. In the past, she has worked in close collaboration as a performer, co-creator, and choreographic consultant with choreographers such as Fabrice Mazliah, Lea Letzel, Francis Chiaverini, Janina Arendt, Ksenia Ravvina, Yasmeen Godder, Viktorija Ilioska; as well as visual artists such as Anne Imhof (NATURE MORTE 2021, FAUST and FAUST JR. 2017, ANGST I, II 2016), Dudu Quintanilha (WE, MESS 2020), Gabriele Rendina Cattani (ERSATZ 2021), Dorota Gaweda and Egle Kulbokaite (BROOD 2023). She has been a member of The Forsythe Company (2010 – 2015) and a founding member of HOOD (Host Organisation fOr proDuction) that held an artistic fellowship at PACT Zollverein from 2017 – 2019. Alongside Mazliah, she has managed a project space called Werkstatt (2021-2023) in Frankfurt.
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In the project “действие, or act i on” (working title) Cheraneva investigates how theatrical language and logic — staging, rehearsal, reenactment, deconstruction, and fragmentation —are co-opted by propaganda to turn war and politics into spectacle; and how performance can act not as representation, but as a way to reflect on and intervene in political reality. To begin this artistic research, Cheraneva draws on three theoretical references: Gender of Sound (Anne Carson), Pulcinella, or Entertainment for Kids in Four Acts (Giorgio Agamben), and Antonin Artaud’s Theatre of Cruelty. In each, she finds propositions for how embodied sound and performance can destabilize authority, rational order, and representation. In particular, she is interested in the figure of Pulcinella, a grotesque trickster whose gestures escape responsibility and guilt.
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