ANA KAVALIS

energy  source

interdisciplinary performance for multilingual bodies and a piano

A project by ORE AMA COLLECTIVE 
Idea, text, performance & sound:  MADDI FUENTE UBANI, ANA KAVALIS & NESLIHAN SCHMIDT

2024 at REFO Moabit, Berlin
2025 at 100° Diaspora Festival, Performing Exiles, Berliner Festspiele 

(EN)
*Homes & Songs* is an interdisciplinary performance that explores the themes of home, identity, and migration from a feminist and decolonial perspective. The performance combines dance, music, body, objects, and voice, whether through text or song. The individual stories of the performers merge into a collective narrative. The personal becomes political and simultaneously transforms into a universal force, creating space for empathy and solidarity. With *Homes & Songs*, we aim to create a playful, poetic, and humorous experience to challenge traditional notions of home and identity in a globalized world.

(DE)
*Homes & Songs* ist eine interdisziplinäre Performance, die sich aus einer feministischen und dekolonialen Perspektive mit den Themen Heimat, Identität und Migration auseinandersetzt. Die Performance verbindet Tanz, Musik, Körper, Objekte und Stimme, sei es in Form von Texten oder Liedern. Die individuellen Geschichten der Performerinnen verschmelzen zu einer kollektiven Erzählung. Das Persönliche wird politisch und zugleich zu einer universellen Kraft, die Raum für Empathie und Solidarität schafft. Mit *Homes & Songs* wollen wir eine spielerische, poetische und humorvolle Erfahrung kreieren, um traditionelle Vorstellungen von Heimat und Identität in einer globalisierten Welt zu hinterfragen.

Welche Lieder brechen auf, wenn das Zuhause sich bewegt?
Which songs break out when the home moves?
Evinden ayrıldığında, hangi şarkıları yanına alırsın ve yolda hangi şarkılarla karşılaşırsın?
¿Qué canciones irrumpen cuando la casa cambia de lugar?
Bewegen. Beleben. Bewohnen. Besitzen. Besetzen. Begehren. Begegnen. Berühren.

To find a home
to meet myself
to love a place
to arrive somewhere
to fly away
to stay

to find a home
jetzt
hier oder da
dort
in mir
in dir
mit oder ohne

Object voice dance performance

A project by Ore Ama Collective
Idee und performance: MADDI FUENTE UBANI & ANA KAVALIS
Venue: CORDILLERA BERLIN

(EN)
Is a performace inspired by the phenomenon of earthquakes, abrupt movements of the Earth caused by the collision of tectonic plates during a sudden rearrangement of materials in the Earth's crust and the release of accumulated energy over an extended period. Through movement, voice, and work with objects, the performance explores spaces of physical density, areas of friction, dissonances, resonances, and the desire to coexist together beyond seismic events.
(DE)
Is a performance ist inspiriert von dem Phänomen der Erdbeben, plötzlichen Bewegungen der Erde, verursacht durch die Kollision tektonischer Platten während einer plötzlichen Neuordnung von Materialien in der Erdkruste und der Freisetzung über einen längeren Zeitraum aufgestauter Energie. Durch Bewegung, Stimme und Arbeit mit Objekten erforscht die Performance Räume physischer Dichte, Bereiche der Reibung, Dissonanzen, Resonanzen und das Verlangen, gemeinsam über Erdbeben hinaus zu existieren.

site-specific performance in collaboration with the artist Eduardo Basualdo

HAUCHDÜNN is actually not a performance, but an act of listening. Based on the simplicity of being, silence, subtle touches and simply walking, the dialogue with the work Incisive (2016) explores different relationships and perspectives in relation to time, body and space. Basualdo's room-filling work, currently on view as part of the exhibition Under Construction, is a new acquisition for the National Gallery's collection. The intervention comes at the invitation of the artist Eduardo Basualdo.

Idea and Space: EDUARDO BASUALDO
Performance: ANA KAVALIS
Place: HAMBURGER BAHNHOF BERLIN
Venue: Art 4 All

Film: https://vimeo.com/909147706
Film © Maria von Staa & Gabriel Rossell Santillán.

dance piece for two performers and sound objects

Dance actors and real-time composers meet for the first time in the Blind Dates initiated by Acker Stadt Palast and develop six unique miniatures. Just as waves overlap and interpenetrate each other in an interference, the artists:in the #share interference encounters inscribe themselves into each other and explore their aesthetic points of friction. The experiment culminates in the live performance of two duos each, re-exploring the resonant spaces between movement, sound, theater and audience. (Acker SP)

Idee, dance, head object: ANA KAVALIS
Idee, sound: MICHAEL VORFELD 

This work was developed and presented as part of the #share-Interference Series at the Público Festival at Acker Stadt Palast.

https://ackerstadtpalast.de/share-interferenz-público-festival
Film: https://vimeo.com/798306526
Film © Maria von Staa

site-specific performance with live sound

In the dance performance, an encounter with the audience is realized in which information emitted by the bodies of the audience is transferred to the bodies of the performers, causing a change in space and time. The focus is on observing, acting and reacting and, as a result, on resonating, playing and becoming. Accompanied by live music and based on improvisation and instant composition, the performance plays with sound spaces and different spatial perspectives. Together with the artists, the audience embarks on a journey that explores immigration, continuity and change.

The performance is supported by the “institutions extended” program (2019 - 2022). The “institutions extended” program is funded by the “Netzwerkfonds -Zukunftsinitiative Stadtteil II (ZI II), Programm Sozialer Zusammenhalt”.

Direction: MADDI FUENTE UBANI
With: MADDI FUENTE UBANI, ANA KAVALIS & ALEXANDER CARRILLO
Music: GABOR CSONGRADI
Venue: Hamburger Bahnhof, Art4All: WISH FULFILLMENT #2
https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/wish-fulfillment-2-tanzperformance-2022-05-05-190000-127582/

Document theater dance performance

Direction: DIANA VENEZIANO / Kalibán Usina Teatro
Performers: ORIANA IRISITY, ANA KAVALIS & ESTHER JEREZ
Dramaturgia y asistencia de dirección: MARCELO DE LOS SANTOS
Music: ISMAEL COLLAZO
Venue: Espacio GEN, Montevideo, Uruguay

Reviews (Spanish)
https://www.pielalterna.com/post/el-teatro-un-territorio-sin-fronteras
https://brecha.com.uy/planos-montados

Site-specific theater performance

Direction and Concept: ULRIKE DÜREGGER
Performers: ANA KAVALIS, ALWINE KLOOZ, MIRA SHARMAAN & ULRIKE DÜREGGER
Dramaturgy: NINA RÜHMEIER
Venue: Vorplatz Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, Kreuzberg, Berlin
Videoartist: NINA LACIN
#Take Action aus dem Programm Neustart Kultur, Fonds Darstellende Künste.

Videodance 

Idea, Concept, Dramaturgy and Direction: YNEZ DE ZILÓN
Choreography & Dance: ANA KAVALIS
Film: CHRISTOPHER  JACKSCHIES
Berlin

Feminist a capella sonic choir

Director: ZORKA WOLLNY
Members: GOSIA GAJDEMSKA, LYLLIE ROUVIERE, PAULINE PAYEN, KAROLINE STRYES, ZORKA WOLLNY, LEAH BUCKAREFF & ANA KAVALIS.

Venues and Festivals (Selection):
From Breath to Matter, Kunsthaus Kule Berlin
Experimental Festival Sokolosko
Let´s Make Noise Sisters, Komuna Festival, Warsawa, Polen
Suspicion of Witchcraft, CTM Festival, HKW Berlin

“A stunning orchestra of alien sounds, at times difficult to believe they emanated from human bodies. The work ebbed and flowed in intensity, ranging from light breath work, to soft rain sounds, to the cacophonous screeches of exotic animals and the razor blade noises of inorganic materials. What interests Wollny most is “how such actions, when made by a group of people, change the quality of sound from obvious to indefinable: how timbre becomes a dominating factor. And, indeed, most sounds were abstracted from their clear referents. Though one might try, the experience becomes less about discerning a recognizable soundscape—a forest, for example—and more about allowing the experience of sound to wash over the body. The audience is prompted to reconsider its relationship to sound, relinquishing the categorical impulse to associate sound with phenomenon, and instead surrendering to the psychosomatic experience of abstract noise.”
Sarah Messerschmidt // Berlin ArtLink // Feb. 01 2019
https://www.berlinartlink.com/2019/02/01/the-voice-as-an-in-strument-of-touch/

three hours ongoing live performance

Idea, Concept and Coordination: JULIANA WÄHNER RIBEIRO
Performers: JULIANA WÄHNER, DAVID ABREU LEANDRO, VICTOR OLIVEIRA, MANA LOBATO, ANTONIO VINÍCIUS ALBUQUERQUE PEIXOTO, AYESKA BORENSTEIN ARIZA, DOUGLAS PARANHOS, GOURAMANI MENEZES, ITALO SPINELLI, JAMILE MOREIRA & ANA KAVALIS.

CORPUS CRÍTICOS - Temporada de Acontecimentos 
FOZ - Z42 Arte Contemporânea, Cosme Velho, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.

Installed performance, which can also be called durational work, where it does not matter when the public arrives to have contact with the work. 3 hours and 5 different works / bodies happening in the same space at the same time, immersed and delivered with their own research to these conditions. Time, Space, and Whatever Happens. In these studies each one within his subject experiences a rising and awakening of his individual essence and at the same time are the elements that compose the "living" picture.
Visitors are invited to draw, circle through the space between Artists, questioning their limits, and witness the intense experience of the Performer closely.