Ana Topalovic

Concept, E-Cello, Live Electronics, Visuals

Rosalie Wanka

Concept, Choreography, Dance

Ana Topalovic has a long-term collaboration with dancer and choreographer Rosalie Wanka in the duo DAN_CE_LLO Since their debut in 2015 at the Wiener Konzerthaus, they have performed at venues and festivals including Gasteig Munich, Posthof Linz, Prinzregententheater, Lange Nacht des Tanzes (Carinthia), Meridian Festival Bucharest, Murten Classics and Austrian Cultural Forums.

Their work is based on the close interaction between music and movement. Using extended techniques, live electronics, and her Multicello approach, Ana creates a layered, polyphonic sound world in real time. Rosalie Wanka works with task-based improvisation, responding to the music, space, and objects, and integrating elements of the surroundings into the performance.

Improvisation plays a central role in the duo, allowing for a continuous exchange between sound and movement. The performances are shaped as thematic programs with a narrative structure, rather than focusing on a specific style or period, and include works by women composers alongside original compositions and transcriptions.

The duo performs in concert settings as well as staged and site-specific formats, and has developed works such as Bezirzungen ↗︎, Landscapes of My Inner Diaspora ↗︎, Fragmentango ↗︎ and Scores ↗︎.

Supported by the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs (BMEIA), the City of Vienna, musik aktuell, the City of Linz, the State of Upper Austria, Verband Freie Darstellende Künste Bayern (VFDKB), the City of Munich, Sonnenstein LOFT Linz, a.o.

Technical Rider

Minimal stage requirements: A chair without armrests (piano chair preferred), power strip with 4 sockets, for bigger venues (from 150 pax) - professional full range PA system according to the size. Dance floor or alternatives upon agreement.

* Ana travels with her own audio gear.

Length: 30 to 80 minutes without a break, or as a recital, 45/35 minutes.