“THE PRESSING” is a solo performance by choreographer and performer Dani Brown that reclaims the word CUNT from vulgarity and transforms it into a speculative artistic entity.
Surrendering body, voice, and choreographic practice to this imagined interlocutor, Brown creates a queer performance universe that is intimate, grotesque, humorous, and transcendent. Movement, monologue, and song intertwine as CUNT appears as diva, oracle, director, and performer.
Accompanied by the immersive soundscape of Justin F. Kennedy and framed by a Vanitas-inspired stage environment, Brown’s body morphs through human and nonhuman states – animal, vegetal, mythic, cinematic.
“THE PRESSING” explores the invisible forces of hormones, nerves, memory, and desire that shape embodied experience. The result is a visceral, sensual, and darkly humorous work about gendered flesh, agency, and transformation.
DANI BROWN was born and raised in Rochester, NY, a small city on Lake Ontario, with a huge gap between rich and poor and a high rate of violent crime. She holds a Bachelor of Dance with a specialisation in Choreography (ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem), and works in film and television as an intimacy coordinator. Her works for stage have been presented internationally in Europe, Africa and Asia.
SHOW DATES
- August 6-8, 8:30 pm
- August 9, 7:30 pm
Radialsystem, Holzmarktstr. 33, 10243 Berlin
