FLUX
Flux is a fractured narrative, firmly rooted in the Jersey witch trials. The piece follows our protagonist from a mythical state of pre-individuated power through to persecution at the hands of her oppressors. It employs a series of anachronistic flourishes to create something impressionistic, non-linear and timeless. Inspired by collected texts and the archetype of the witch, Flux explores the darker side of humanity, the echoes of history, and the shadow self — the forbidden, the desired, and the instincts and fears that are often relegated to the depths of the unconscious.
Credits:
Choregraphy Katya Bourvis
Composition and Sound Design Andrew Morgan
Additional Music Tracks
Pearl, Gnostic State - Penneloppe Trappes; Sarabande, Orlando Act 1: No.9 ‘Ho un certo rossore’ - Handel; Prologue, Burn, Masks, Plague - Meredith Monk; Bewitched -Tv theme; He needs Me - Shelly Duvall; Witchcraft - Patience and Prudence; Chorus - Holly Herndon; Wolf - Pauline Oliveros
Costumes Katherine Watt
Artistic Consultant Lawrence Pumfrey
Assistant Asier Edeso Eguia
With Thanks to Benji Knapper, Dominic Rocca, Susan Kempster and Kate Flatt
Katya Bourvis’ “Flux” is like watching a story play out through the reflection in a fractured mirror — distorted, dystopian, disturbing, and comically absurd. A woman with an unnamed power, a misunderstanding, an accusation. A society demanding conformity, posturing, and submission as the price of survival. Was she really a witch, or did we make her into one?
It doesn’t matter, does it? In a witch hunt, we do not require the truth before we condemn.
The Choreographer
Katya is an award winning Choreographer with an extensive international performance career spanning English National Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet and the Royal Opera & Ballet.
As a choreographer, she has been awarded a Sadler’s Wells artist residency and collaborated on cross-disciplinary work with partners such as Northern Ballet Theatre, Barbican, Charles Jeffrey Loverboy and Nowness. She has directed, soundtracked and produced a series of her own dance films, which have been selected for BAFTA qualifying festivals and leading online platforms. Her work explores human desire, tenderness and connection. She hopes to offer up a space for freedom of expression for both audience and dancer to discover joy, to find humour in the absurd and celebration in the messy. Within that process she hopes dancer and audience will share an emotional intimacy and honesty that acts as a catharsis.