Charlène Dannancier (b. France) is an artist and composer who engages with sound, performance, installation, film and contemporary opera in her practice.

Engaging in an embodied approach to sound, her work inhabits the charged zones where intimacy meets discomfort and control, using vulnerability as an ethical axis and critical lens. She creates environments in which the body becomes both instrument and site of tension, probing the pressures that shape consent, power, and the negotiation of limits. Through immersive performances, audiovisual pieces and sculptural sonic architectures, Dannancier forges spaces where friction and emotional intensity unfold without resolution, intertwining personal narrative with feminist inquiry to question how bodies are shaped, disciplined, and transformed.

She was nominee for the Sybren Hellinga Keunstpriis 2025 and her recent presentations include Rozenstraat - A rose is a rose is a rose (Amsterdam, NL), Kunsthuis SYB (Beetsterzwaag, NL), U122AE (Paris, FR), De Thomaskerk (Amsterdam, NL), Rewire Festival (Den Haag, NL), Jedna Dva Tři Gallery (Prague, CZ), Het Hem (Zaandam, NL), OHM (Berlin, DE), De School (Amsterdam, NL) and more.

Listen to her studio album here

Full portfolio available on request
dannanciercharlene@gmail.com
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Someone Could Actually Die Here Tonight, Opera for voice, metal collar microphone and bow-blade, performed at De Thomas Kerk, Amsterdam, 2025