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Dandara Modesto

Dandara is a brazilian transdisciplinary artist: singer, performer and music producer based in Zurich/Switzerland.

Professional activities:

  • Ableton Live
  • Composition
  • Creative Direction
  • E-guitar
  • Homestudio recording
  • Improvisation
  • Logic Pro
  • Songwriting
  • Synthesizer
  • Vocals

Hobbies and interests:

  • Beatmaking
  • Cultural organisation / management
  • Cultural politics
  • DJ
  • E-bass
  • Mixing
  • Percussion
  • Sound Design

Pronouns:

she/her

Dandara Modesto is a Brazilian transdisciplinary artist: singer, performer and music producer based in Zurich/Switzerland. A researcher of the body and sound, she works with memory, rhythm, displacement, reverberations, spatiality, counter-coloniality and ancestry.
Throughout her career, she has collaborated on various music, dance, theater, visual arts and performance projects in Brazil and Europe. Dandara has produced, composed and directed soundtracks for films and performances, such as "Movimento III_Celebration, post tsunami foams" (Mario Lopes), "Afrotranstopia (Mario Lopes, David Muñoz, Mahal Pita), "Die Schwarzen Brüder" (Mbene Mwambene, Theater Basel).
He was awarded the Performancepreis Schweiz prize for his work "Neon Bush Girl Society".
In her latest album, "Estrangeira", Dandara reverberates about the female body in transit, migration and the power of otherness.

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