Charlène Dannancier is a French composer, performer, and visual artist working across music, voice, installation, video, and contemporary opera.
Engaging in an embodied approach to sound, her work inhabits the charged zones where intimacy meets discomfort and control, using vulnerability as an ethical axis and critical lens. She creates environments in which the body becomes both instrument and site of tension, probing the pressures that shape consent, power, and the negotiation of limits. Through immersive performances and sculptural sonic architectures, Dannancier forges spaces where friction and emotional intensity unfold without resolution, intertwining personal narrative with feminist inquiry to question how bodies are shaped, disciplined, and transformed.
She was nominee for the Sybren Hellinga Keunstpriis 2025 and her recent presentations include Kunsthuis SYB (Beetsterzwaag, NL), U122AE (Paris, FR), De Thomaskerk (Amsterdam, NL), Rewire Festival (Den Haag, NL), Jedna Dva Tři Gallery (Prague, CZ), Het Hem (Zaandam, NL), OHM (Berlin, DE), De School (Amsterdam, NL) and more.
dannanciercharlene@gmail.com
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Someone Could Actually Die Here Tonight, Opera for voice, metal collar microphone and bow-blade, performed at De Thomas Kerk, Amsterdam, 2025
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Excess, Metal sculpture, music composition, autotheory & poetry, installation view at Het Hem, Zaandam, 2024
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A/V live, Voice, electronics, multichannel video, stroboscopic lights, installation view at De School, Amsterdam, 2023
