dancesu110 Dan Su 蘇丹 su

I make model + noise ...

Well, if you need a more extensive introduction, here goes:

Dan Su (born in Kunming, China) creates a hybrid of music, dance, film, and visual art, in a "Raw, Pure & Uncompromising" way. To pursue her artistic vision and expression, she is equipped with multimedia practices: body movement, sound generation, analog and digital processes of still and moving images. Since 2017, she has been working as a freelancer in U.S. and Berlin. After she produced a number of stage performance “Roots” (2017), “I EYE I” (2018), and “On an attempt of a chicken soup” (2019), she has experimented with the intersection of media, resulting in for example the long durational performance installation "WHITE WRITE 白写" (2020) on dance and calligraphy, and the commissioned site-specific music and dance performance "TU BE" (2020) which happened on the pipes of the backyard of Gaswerksiedlung. Following her own music production practice, she has debuted her electronic single “Today I Am” (2019), successively released the single "Blue Eyes" and EP "Chicken Soup" (2020), and soon the upcoming new album "Game0: U Think UR Safe". As a sound maker, she attempts to create the dynamic and haunted space that challenges the listeners.

"Passionate about performance, I am interested in creating worlds that live on their own.

(hmmm, what it means by living, and on their own?)

I use composition, improvisation and algorithms to generate and shape the experience

through the dialogical interaction of body, movement, sound and colour.

I am in search of the atoms that float between chaos, order, stochastic, deterministic, brutality and gentleness, in grey zones, and out of continuous time.

perhaps they are fundamentally untraceable?!

Absurdity

Having a migration background and being an outsider constantly,

I am interested in creating visual and audio experience that seduce people

to migrate, to exile, into an alien bubble.

The space where I feel being as an alien and never at home,

is brutal, futuristic, raw

with a precious longing for gentleness.

So long

for 0D, 1D, 2D, 3D, 4D...NDimention

waiting where the probability is deadly lowww

is it gonna happen?"

Choreography and Performance

2021 Duet: on the way to forget | Site-specific dance performance (Dominican Republic)

2020 Riss | Installative music and dance performance (Staatsoper Berlin)

TU BE | Commissioned site-specific music and dance performance (Gaswerksiedlung, Berlin)

WHITE WRITE 白写 | Three hours audio-visual performance installation (48Studio, Berlin)

2019 On an attempt of a chicken soup | Solo performance (Ada studio, Berlin)
2018 I EYE I | Trio dance performance (Tanzfabrik, Berlin)
Ready to Explode | Trio dance performance (Uferstudio, Berlin)
2017 Roots | Solo performance (UW-Madison, U.S.)