Anda, Diana

What lies beyond dance and beyond the body? “Anda, Diana” transforms the body into a revolutionary instrument that questions (bodily) norms and defies prejudice and prevailing social assumptions and aesthetics.


In the award-winning performance “Anda, Diana”, presented at Radialsystem as a Berlin premiere, the dancer and acrobat Diana Niepce offers an intimate look into the process of her self-reconstruction after a fall that led to an irreversible spinal cord injury.


In a radical dialogue between body and mind, logic and chaos, the choreographer lets the dancing body emerge and encourages us to challenge bodily norms and counter normativity with new aesthetic values. The disability – although existent – does not represent a victim of the system; on the contrary, this body positions itself as revolutionary outside the norm.


Part of the project “Anda, Diana” is Diana Niepce’s eponymous autobiography: an introspective work developed through painful and personal experiences and shaped by the artistic perspective of the author.