Federica Dauri is a performance artist, choreographer, and dancer. Born and raised in Rome, Federica moved to Berlin in 2014 after having lived and worked in New York and Amsterdam since 2009,
After studying ballet, contemporary dance, and choreography at the National Academy of dance in Rome, Dauri specialized in a critical investigation of body politics, philosophy, and performing art.
Her creative work is rooted in a critical engagement with Rudolf Steiner's system of Eurythmy a rhythmical, physical, and vocal art of expression, as well as the Japanese dance Butoh, studying with teachers such Masaki Iwana and Akira Kasai.
She refined her performance signature under the lead direction of Trisha Brown in New York.

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Her work has allowed her to pursue a wide range of artistic mediums such as performance art _especially long-durational performances _ as well as installations and mix media works.
She has produced and directed performance work for established exhibition spaces, theaters, festivals, and art residencies across Europe, such Elbphiarmonie Hamburg, Q21 Vienna, Kunsteverein Hamburg, ICK Amsterdam, Volksbuhne Berlin, Moca Contemporary art museum Skopje, Sculpture Quadriennal Riga, University Fine Art Sofia and many others on her own, or in collaboration with visual artists, researchers, and composers.
She also collaborates and performs with Canadian artist and singer Peaches since 2016.

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Was selected by Marina Abramovic Institut to perform in an exhibition dedicated to long-durational performance at the Fondazione Feltrinelli Milano that due covid still has to happen.
Her artistic research questions the meaning of presence: what does it mean to be present? It revolves around the consciousness of the self in relation to the environment.
Mindfulness in fact means maintaining moment by moment awareness of the thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, surrounding environment, and relationship with others.
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In her artistic practice, the human body is the central object of projection and introspection, by focusing on a profound research in the physical, emotional, and social relevance.
Through this investigation, the body becomes subject and object at the same time, content and form, a tool of research, and the researched concept.
Her body is constantly pushed towards the unknown, the beyond, the hidden, the indistinct, the elusive, this is where the performance truly reformulates feelings and actions.

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