su dance110 (a.k.a Dan Su, born in Kunming, China) is an artist, composer, musician, choreographer and performer currently based in Berlin. su works with sound and movement in the contexts of performing art, sound art, and visual art. Their work primarily includes: performance, installation, scores and conceptual structures, experimental, electronic, electro-acoustic music, and contemporary dance.
Being formerly trained as a statistician and dancer, su has fully embarked on her artistic path, creating work in a “Raw, Pure & Uncompromising” way. Hybridising the scientific and artistic thinking, su's work is situated at the intersections of multiple media and methodologies. Experimental design, sound research, movement research, and processing still and moving images are her practices that feed to each other back and forth. Philosophically inspired by the second-order cybernetics, su looks into the interactivity within plurality and radical paradigm shifts of methodologies. Politically su focuses on raising the voice of marginalised, oppressed beings. su’s choreography includes elements of bodies at the borderline; fragmented, uncontrolled, or hung bodies. It is grounded in su's "Lazy Body" practice. su's sound practice incorporates corporeal reverberation, actions, improvisations and experimentations with objects, voice, and synthesizers. Shaping the characters in relation to the larger structures plays an important role in the composition, resulting in operatic quality of su's music and dance performance work. Through sound and movement, su aims at the unimaginable landscapes, unanswerable questions, and unprovable truths.
Mu = model, Nu = noise, I make Mu [ Nu ] + Nu
"Passionate about performance, I am interested in creating worlds that live 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
Being an outsider constantly,
I am interested in creating visual and audio experience that seduce peopleto migrate, to exile, into an odd 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 p ( su | 0D, 1D, 2D, 3D, 4D...NDimention)
{ repeat (waiting where the probability is deadly low),
ever gonna happen!?
}
endless"
Music Composition and Soundscape
2021 unmeasurement | construction site performance Road Maintenance Series Nr.01, 52 min
DTM | performance Dark Twisted Mind, 32 min
2020 Stille Oper | performance Riss, 21 min
White Write | performance installation WHITE WRITE 白 写, 3 hour
2019 Chicken Soup IIII | dance performance On an attempt of a chicken soup, 21 min
Live Act
2021 Solo set: tools, guitar, synthesizer and voice | 40 min (Kwia, Berlin)
Improvisation: dance, voice and drum with Aaron Snyder | 18 min (Gaswerksiedlung, Berlin)
3:33:08 duo debut with William "Bilwa" Costa | 33 min (Klub Brno, Ostrava, CZ)
White Write 2.0 | 1h 30min (Monopol, Berlin)
4 lines of thoughts | 21 min (Grolmanstr. 58, Berlin)
untitled series: basement, toilette, attic | 5.05 min, 2.30 min, 25 min (Torhaus, Stadt Wehlen, DE)
Mehr Licht [mir so schlecht] with Bruno Pocheron and group | 42 min (Wiesenburg Berlin, Ausland Berlin)
2020 Improvisation: dance, voice and saxophone with Zhenya Strigalev | 15 min (XJAZZ, Emmaus Kirche, Berlin)
TU BE with Claudio Puntin | 44 min (Gaswerksiedlung, Berlin)
Music Release
2022 3:33:08 | collaboration with William "Bilwa" Costa, LP, in progress
untitled | collaboration with Claudio Puntin, LP, in progress
2021 Game0: 110 | solo debut multimedia album, self released
2020 Chicken Soup IIII | EP
Blue Eyes | single
2019 Today I am | single
Choreography and Performance
2021 Dark Twisted Mind | Interactive audio-visual installation performance (HfS, Berlin)
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.)
Short Film
2021 Game0 : 110 | full length film for music album Game0 : 110 (Berlin)
2020 | Music video (Berlin)
2020 On Zone and Gap 区 间 | Experimental short (Berlin)
Breath Span | Poem film (Albi, France)
Erosion Project | Dance film features brutalist architecture (Madison, U.S.)
Pong plays | Music video (Berlin)
2019 Blue Eyes | Music video (Salzburg, Austria)
2018 Today I am | Music video (New Mexican, U.S.)
Bird beyond Bird | Experimental shorts with animation (Berlin)
Why Lolli | Dance film (Chicago, U.S.)
Wood in Mood | Dance film (Austria)
2017 Dare to Dance in Public | Site-specific dance performance (Berlin)
Next Door | Dance film (Vienna)
Verboten | Experimental short (Vienna)
Visual Art
up-to-date drawings and paintings
digital art listed on opensea.io
Collaboration Projects
with William "Bilwa" Costa | music project 3:33:08
with Claudio Puntin | upcoming music album
with Bruno Pocheron | interactive sound and light project
with Zhenya Strigalev | music and dance videos funded by Rainy Jazz label
with Neumond | interactive sound and movement performance
collective co.lab | festival for collaboration methodology
Residency
2021 OIIOIOOI residency at Torhaus Stadt Wehlen Germany
Gaswerk encuentro con el CARIBE residency at Dominican Republic
Grants and Awards
2021 STIBET-Programm DAAD Stipendium
2017 American Educational Research Association Dissertation Grant
Awarded by The National Science Foundation, Grant #DRL-1749275
2011 Meritorious Winner of Interdisciplinary Contest in Modelling
Awarded by The Consortium for Mathematics and Its Application
2010 National Scholarship
2009 Awarded by Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China
Degree
2021 MA, Choreography, HZT, Universität der Künste Berlin and Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch
2018 PhD, Quantitative Methodology, University of Wisconsin - Madison, U.S.
2015 MS, Quantitative Methodology in Educational Psychology, University of Wisconsin - Madison, U.S.