Danilo Andrés

ARTIST IN RESIDENCY – AUGUST 2024

SOMATIC VOICE & HORROR – Residency in eindorf

In “SOMATIC VOICE & HORROR”, dance and guttural voice come together to create an expansive, concertante and at the same time installative work. Danilo Andrés is particularly interested in the intersection of vocal techniques from punk and metal music in combination with guttural singing with origin in ancient magical-ritualistic contexts, including fry scream, false chord scream, Tibetan guttural singing and mantras. What is essential for them is the aspect of repetition – in the sense of the mantra – and its energetic power to make the body dance and sing at the same time. Sounds vibrate beyond the boundaries of one’s own skin; unconventional and expressive situations that challenge the anatomical logic of the body and shape it as an open skin, making possible a kind of monstrosity of the body as a sci-fi view of identity and existence.
Danilo Andrés creates images, scenes and soundscapes with multiple bodies and voices, influenced by black magic, animism, voodoo, sorcery and rituals. As if the dancers‘ body were possessed by supernatural beings and spirits, while they perform secret songs and dances. In doing so, they dissolve the boundaries between the human and the non-human.
SOMATIC VOICE & HORROR is part of Danilo’s research for a new dance production.

CONTEXT

In their artistic work as a performer and choreographer, non-binary Latin-American artist Danilo Andrés, who lives in Berlin, explores the development of the body in a queer context. This project is dedicated to the investigation and theorization of the body, identity, representation and performance, which distance themselves from references and normative forms of judgement.
In Danilo’s country of origin, Latin America, working with the voice is an important instrument for rituals and ceremonies of healing in the context of the indigenous people and their traditions. The shamans as mediums develop the ability to speak and sing in different voices. Danilo will draw on these origins as inspiration to use the voice as an instrument of the spirit and the body in the sense of energy and movement.

BIO

Danilo Andrés is a choreographer/visual artist & voice artist based in Berlin. Their work in visual, sonic and performance art has always been interrelated by incorporating multiple forms of media, such as sculptural headpieces, costumes, and video. Since 2014, they have collaborated with artistic institutions in Berlin, including Akademie der Künste and Neuköllner Oper, along with their work as a solo performer/dancer in cooperation with other choreographers like Felix Ruckert and Okwui Okpokwasili. Most recently, in 2023, they presented their solo installation BICHO RARO at Sophiensaele Berlin. They create mainly solo pieces and use their multidimensional skills as a visual artist, performer, and choreographer to research the development of the body in a queer context. Since 2024, Danilo Andrés has been teaching their class „Practices of Animation of the Matter“ in Tanzquartier Vienna.

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