Artist Name: Daniela Ruocco
Residency Dates: February – April 2025
Born: 1985
Hometown: Bremen, Germany
Lives & Works: Bern, Switzerland
URL: danielaruocco.ch | Instagram @__la__poderosa
Education: MA Expanded Theater, Bern University of the Arts
Bio/Statement:
Daniela Ruocco works plurilingual (de/es/en/fr/it) and across disciplines in various constellations as a performing artist and director. Recurring motifs in Daniela’s work revolve around intersectional feminism, multilingualism, identity politics, and body norms. She regularly works solo as CONSUELA DEL VALLE GRANDE, as a duo with the performance label fisting*sisters, and in a team with the Basel (CH) based theater collective helium x.
In 2020, she developed “polyglot dreams” – her first short play which led into a long-term study on the subject of multilingualism and democratic representation. In 2022, she created her first full-length solo “EN MI IMPERIO PERREO SOLA,” which counters the sexist reggaeton music world with a glamorous, queerfeminist alternative and gives birth to the artistic persona CONSUELA DEL VALLE GRANDE.
She has been a Dance and Dramaturgy scholarship holder since the summer of 2023 – a support program organized by the Théâtre Sévelin 36 and funded by ProHelvetia. The follow-up work “Piñata” was created in this context. “Piñata” continues on revolving around the artistic persona CONSUELA and her transformative power. With professional dilettantism, Drag-King-Show elements, and lots of music, CONSUELA sets out in search of a different kind of rebellion: a feminist and self-empowering soft revolution.
Support: Daniela Ruocco’s residency is made possible with support from the Canton of Berne Office of Culture / Cultural Promotion.
