Danai Pappa

Danai’s work can include dance, dance theatre, videodance and site-specific performances. The material she uses is dance, pedestrian movement and spatial relationships. Her works are rarely story-based; instead, she prefers to put together fragments of images related to the theme.

​

Danai recognizes many forms of human behaviour to be performative. That is why she uses everyday movement or she performs to and with the audience by focusing on the playful exploration of different realms of the performance process. She commits to the moment with unwavering passion. Her work is essentialist, shaved of pretension and astonishingly direct in its impact.

​

She is inspired by everything around her. She observes, formulates questions and creates while she tries to satisfy, and at the same time stimulate, her curiosity. She considers the body as a vessel with not only physical, but also social, political and cultural dimensions. She wants her choreographic work to be open to multiple interpretations and governed by universality.