Hey, why do you look so tired? “Urgency culture” expects us to be connected and responsive constantly. There is little to no time left to imagine the world otherwise. Tanztage Berlin – a yearly festival highlighting the work of the city’s emerging dance makers – is back to diagnose the present and predict the future. Its 32nd edition investigates our daily overstimulation and chronic fatigue by reflecting on how we move to the rhythm of today’s high-speed, social media-driven reality and its challenges.
Instead of being stuck inside the old stories of progress and growth that depend on extracting profit from the earth and the body, the work presented in the festival aims to flip the script. It dances to slow down, restore, reclaim, transform or envision a new self, outside the paradigm of self-optimization. From collective dream meditations through protest dances to solo musicals dealing with content overload, it invites us to observe the exchange between bodies, replenish depleted resources and rejuvenate through dancing.
The program presents ten performances, one of them is Danilo Andrés’ “BICHO RARO”
BICHO RARO investigates the world of bodybuilding – its lifestyle, exercise routines and aesthetics – to uncover the tension between the body cult nowadays and a queer perspective on the physicality. The solid, static, fixed body is opposed by a flexible, fluid human anatomy and its perception; developing against the rules as a new kind of bodily science fiction. Inspired by body-cult worlds, such as comics, posthumanism or cyberpunk, BICHO RARO tells of transformation and a human being as a system ready for mutation. The ongoing research, presented so far as a video installation and a queer gym course will premiere as a performance during Tanztage Berlin 2023.
DANILO ANDRÉS is a dancer/choreographer and visual 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, photography and video. Since 2014, they have collaborated with artistic institutions in Berlin, including Akademie der Künste and Neuköllner Oper, along with their work as dancer in cooperation with other choreographers like Minako Seki, Felix Ruckert (Schwelle7) and Okwui Okpokwasili (Berlin Biennale 2018 at KW Institute for Contemporary Art). Most recently, in 2019, they have worked as performer for the queer artist Peaches, a production of Sommerfestival Kampnagel Hamburg and Volksbühne Berlin.
CHOREOGRAPHY, CONCEPT, DESIGN, VIDEO INSTALLATION, DANCE Danilo Andrés
DRAMATURGY Diego Agulló
SOUND DESIGN Mad Kate (Electronics, Vocalizations), Sara Neidorf (Drums)
VIDEO INSTALLATION Peter Bromme, Paulo Fernandez Set Design Moran Sanderovich
MAKE-UP VIDEO INSTALLATION Queen of Virginity, Danilo Andrés
PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT Hanna Schaich
Tickets:10–15€
