Handle with care feat. Danilo Andrés

PNEUMA

brut nordwest
Showing / Dance / Performance without language | Duration: 30 minutes
{Spiritual} {Distorted} {Demonic}

As part of the brut series Handle with care, performer Danilo Andrés invites the audience to attend a rehearsal for the new project PNEUMA. The Handle with care format regularly opens up rehearsal processes at brut and creates space for dialog and exchange. Artists try out parts of their work in front of a small audience, receive feedback and turn the visitors into accomplices.

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Handle with care feat. Danilo Andrés – PNEUMA

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Danilo Andrés – PNEUMA

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Danilo Andrés – PNEUMA

, © @vicen.tente

Danilo Andrés – PNEUMA

In PNEUMA, dance and guttural voice come together to create an expansive, concertante and at the same time installative work. Danilo Andrés investigates the world of the supernatural and spirit possessions. By using extreme vocal practices, such as growling, guttural voice, lamentations, screams, and whispers, the choreographer creates incantations that aim to open portals and thresholds to the spiritual world. The research involves developing new dances and ritual actions designed to communicate with spiritual forces. In this framework, bodily possession practices under the influence of supernatural energies, spirits, and demons will be examined. The choreographer and vocalist associate the guttural voice with the primal, the spiritual, and the supernatural and they recognise here a context to be explored by the choreographic and visual art as well. In many cultures, this type of vocalisation is believed to allow the person to connect with energies that are beyond the human, linking the singer with the divine, the ancestral, or the unknown. The raspy, deep sound of the guttural voice can evoke strength and mystery and is valued for awakening human emotions on an instinctive level.

 

Danilo Andrés is a choreographer, singer and visual artist based in Berlin. Danilo Andrés combines visual, acoustic and performative art as well as different media, such as sculptural headdresses, costumes, photography and video. In 2023, Danilo Andrés presented the solo performance BICHO RARO as part of the Tanztage Berlin at Sophiensaele. In addition, Danilo Andrés creates multidimensional solo works to explore the development of the body in a queer context. Danilo Andrés has been teaching the class PRACTICES OF ANIMATION OF THE MATTER at Tanzquartier Wien since 2024. The rehearsal residency at brut Wien is part of the Pina Bausch Fellowship 2024.

Accessibility
The showing takes place in a rehearsal room on the 1st floor. It is only accessible via a staircase. There is no elevator available. A barrier-free toilet is located on the ground floor.

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Credits

Choreographer, vocalist & performer Danilo Andrés Outside eye/collaborating partner Veza Maria Fernández

PNEUMA is supported by the Pina Bausch Fellowship 2024 (Pina Bausch Foundation) and brut Wien.

Dates & Tickets

May 2025

Tue. 27.05.2025, 19:00
Pay as you can on site.Registration closed. Remaining seats on site

brut nordwest
Nordwestbahnstraße 8-10, 1200 Vienna
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