ANA KAVALIS

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 & Fotos © 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
Bilder: © Maria von Staa

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
Bilder: © Alejandro Pérez Sacco

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

Feminist a capella sonic choir

Director: ZORKA WOLLNY
Actual active members: GOSIA GAJDEMSKA, LYLLIE ROUVIERE, PAULINE PAYEN, KAROLINE STRYES, ZORKA WOLLNY, & ANA KAVALIS.

“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/

On Soundcloud: https://on.soundcloud.com/S6EXHNu62TZhOyz6co
On Insta: https://www.instagram.com/thepsychedelicchoir/

Interview and review about the Sabotage Manual Concert in Berlin
POSITIONEN Text zur aktuellen Musik, Ausgabe 143, Berlin.
https://www.positionen.berlin/ausgaben

CALENDAR (Selection)

June 2025
PSYCHEDELIC CHOIR - MOTHERTONGUE 
Ostrale Biennale, Robotron Dresden.
https://youtu.be/ARHhkshKb5o

April 2025 
PSYCHEDELIC CHOIR - SABOTAGE MANUAL
Errant Sound, Gerichtstrasse 45, Berlin

March 2025
PSYCHEDELIC CHOIR _ SABOTAGE MANUAL
opening concert in the frame of ON MOBILISATION project out___of___sight

August 30 - 2024
PSYCHEDELIC CHOIR - THINGS OF NO SIGNIFICANCE / INITIAL BUZZ / LAST EGG PARTY Errant Sounds - released album

September 02 - 2023
PSYCHEDELIC CHOIR - PER DIEM
Venue: Cash exhibition, Errant Sound, Berlin

August 30 - 2023
PSYCHEDELIC CHOIR - PER DIEM
Venue: Hosek Contemporary, Berlin

June 08 - 2023
PSYCHEDELIC CHOIR - DER WALD WIRD CHOR
Venue: Kommunalgalerie, Berlin

February 02 - 2023
PSYCHEDELIC CHOIR - MUSEUM OF ANIMALS
Venue: YELLOW SOLO in LUXOOM LAB HALL, Berlin

January 14 - 2023 PSYCHEDELIC CHOIR
Venue: SPIKR LIVE, Oslo

November 5 - 2022
PSYCHEDELIC CHOIR - STRATEGIEN DER SPINNE
Venue: Robotron Kantine, Dresden (DE)

September 06 / November 01 - 2021
PSYCHEDELIC CHOIR - LET’S MAKE NOISE SISTERS!
Venue: Edit Russ Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg DE

June 26 / August 28 - 2021
PSYCHEDELIC CHOIR - LET’S MAKE NOISE SISTERS!
Venue: Zorka Wollny. We Insist! MOS Gorzow EN

October 30 - 2020
PSYCHEDELIC CHOIR - LET’S MAKE NOISE SISTERS!
Venue: Komuna Warszawa, Warszawa (PL)

October 03 - 2020
PSYCHEDELIC CHOIR - SUSPICION OF WITCHCRAFT
Venue: AG DER CLUBKULTUR: CLUBCOMMISSION X CTM FESTIVAL, TRANSVERSE, HKW Terrasse, Berlin (DE)

September 05-06 - 2019
PSYCHEDELIC CHOIR Studio sessions - record
Venue: Malawi Studios, Berlin (DE)

July 27- 2019
PSYCHEDELIC CHOIR - MUSEUM OF ANIMALS
Venue: 9th International Festival of Ephemeral Art Contexts, Sokolowsko (PL)

January 06 - 2019
PSYCHEDELIC CHOIR - OPEN CALL: THINGS OF NO SIGNIFICANCE VOL.2 Venue: KuLe Theater, Kunsthaus Berlin (DE)

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.
Fotos: © Cristiano Pepi

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.