Danilo Andrés
- Fellow 2024
- dancer, choreographer and visual artist from Berlin, Germany
- cooperating partner: Veza Fernandez (Vienna, Austria)
Danilo Andrés (they/them) is a dancer/choreographer, visual artist and voice artist who lives in Berlin. Danilo's work in visual, acoustic, and performance art has always been interconnected, incorporating various media such as sculptural headpieces, costumes, photography, and video. Since 2014, they have worked as a dancer in collaboration with choreographers such as Felix Ruckert and Okwui Okpokwasili. In 2023, Danilo presented the solo performance Bicho Raro as part of the Tanztage Berlin at Sophiensaele. Additionally, their solo pieces utilize their multidimensional abilities as a visual artist, performer, and choreographer to explore the development of the body in a queer context. Since 2024, Danilo has been teaching at Tanzquartier Wien, where their class, Practices of Anmitation of the Matter, likewise explores these themes.
During their fellowship, Danilo Andrés and Veza Fernandez will investigate the aesthetics of monstrosity in both the guttural voice and in scream, investigating their power to dissolve boundaries between the human and non-human. In their performance art and practice Danilo's particular interest is in the intersection of vocal techniques from Punk and Metal music combined with guttural singing rooted in ancient magical and ritualistic contexts, including fry screams, false chord screams, Tibetan throat singing, and mantras. Central to their work is the aspect of repetition (as in mantras) and its energetic ability to simultaneously induce dance and song in the body. The fellowship project is supported by Brut venue in Vienna.
"Danilo Andrés digs deep into ancestral knowledge in an effort to reanimate contemporary dance. Their work on guttural and ritualistic vocal expressions and screamscapes accompany them through their carefully choreographed dance performances. The fellowship will enable Danilo Andrés to work with Veza Fernandez, an artist pushing the boundaries of vocal performance art. Danilo hopes that the encounter will offer them more learning – and a breakthrough into the underground voice and performance scenes in Europe. The tension between performance art and the practice of live dance performances could propel Danilo's artistry towards new horizons, when they return back to Berlin with a new vocal-physical repertoire, and a toolbox of possibilities."
- Jury Statement