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THE PRESSING

Performance by Dani Brown

  • THE PRESSING 1 – Eine Person kniet auf einer dunklen Bühne mit dem Rücken zu einem großen Spiegel. Daneben blaue Blumen.

    THE PRESSING 1 – Eine Person kniet auf einer dunklen Bühne mit dem Rücken zu einem großen Spiegel. Daneben blaue Blumen.

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  • THE PRESSING 2 – Eine Person kniet mit gesenktem Kopf vor einem aufwändigen, bunten Blumenarrangement.

    THE PRESSING 2 – Eine Person kniet mit gesenktem Kopf vor einem aufwändigen, bunten Blumenarrangement.

    © Promo

“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.

Artists/Collaborators: Dani Brown (Künstlerische Leitung und Performance), Justin F. Kennedy (Sounddesign und Performance), Maja Zimmermann (Dramaturgie), Catalina Fernandez (Lichtdesign und technische Leitung), BLUME & RAUM (Blumenarrangement), Jan Fack (Bühnenbild), Tammo Walter (Produktion), Daniel K. B. Schmidt (Foto und Video), Peyman Pouryekta (Grafikdesign), Florian von Keyserlingk (Sound Mastering)

“THE PRESSING” is a production by Dani Brown in co-production with Radialsystem, funded by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with resources from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, as well as the Radial Foundation. Supported by Arsenic Lausanne, ImpulsTanz, O Espaço do Tempo, Tanzhaus Zürich, New Fears Gallery for Dance and Performance, Trauma Bar und Kino, and Pharos Arts Foundation.

The 2026 revival is funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, in cooperation with BLUME & RAUM.

Radialsystem media partners: The Berliner, tip Berlin, and taz – die tageszeitung.

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