Performance by Dani Brown
“THE PRESSING” is a solo performance by choreographer and performer Dani Brown that reclaims the word CUNT from vulgarity and transforms it into a speculative artistic entity. Surrendering body, voice, and choreographic practice to this imagined interlocutor, Brown creates a queer performance universe that is intimate, grotesque, humorous, and transcendent.
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Movement, monologue, and song intertwine as CUNT appears as diva, oracle, director, and performer.
Accompanied by the immersive soundscape of Justin F. Kennedy and framed by a Vanitas-inspired stage environment, Brown’s body morphs through human and nonhuman states – animal, vegetal, mythic, cinematic.
“THE PRESSING” explores the invisible forces of hormones, nerves, memory, and desire that shape embodied experience.
The result is a visceral, sensual, and darkly humorous work about gendered flesh, agency, and transformation.
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Dates
August 2026
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