Charlène Dannancier presents It Might Be Otherwise (Performance)
she/her
Sat May 30 | TILLATEC
It Might Be Otherwise (2026) is a site-specific performance in which voice, electronics, and hybrid instruments collide within an unstable sonic environment. Combining fragments of earlier work with new material, Charlène Dannancier reconfigures operatic form through repetition, variation, and interruption. Metal collar microphones, bow-blades, performers, and shifting light conditions generate a space structured by tension and dissonance. Ambiguity becomes a compositional tool, destabilising fixed structures and expectations, as the body moves through cycles of control and release, producing a performance that remains open, volatile, and unresolved.
About the artist
Charlène Dannancier is a French composer, performer, and visual artist working across sound, voice, installation, video, and contemporary opera. Her practice centres on the body as both instrument and site of tension, inhabiting the charged zones where intimacy meets discomfort and control, and using vulnerability as an ethical axis and critical lens. Through immersive performances, Dannancier forges spaces where friction and emotional intensity unfold without resolution. Engaging voice and electronics in embodied ways, her work probes questions of power, consent, and limits, resisting resolution in favour of unstable, affective encounters. She was nominee for the Sybren Hellinga Keunstpriis 2025, and her recent presentations include Rozenstraat – a rose is a rose is a rose (Amsterdam, NL), Kunsthuis SYB (Beetsterzwaag, NL), U122AE (Paris, FR), De Thomaskerk (Amsterdam, NL), Rewire Festival (Den Haag, NL), and more.
