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DANZ

DANZ “you have a beautiful voice”

Name(s)

DANZ
Mara Danz (1993)

Website(s)

maradanz.com

Instagram

mara_danz

Employment

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Education

Bachelor’s degree in Fashion Design

Title

DANZ “you have a beautiful voice”

Year of creation

2021

Place of creation

Glarus

Context of creation

Personal motivation

Collaborators

Textildruckerei Mitlödi, Mitlödi, Hans Blesi; ISSU ISSU, Zurich; Mariella Ingrassia, Cheryl Graf, Anne Bellinger, Berlin (DE)

Item(s) shown

30 dresses and 5 bags, earrings

Dimensions

Various

Formats/Duration

Film

Material(s)

Silk, cotton

Material supplier(s)

Textildruckerei Mitlödi, Mitlödi; Taroni, Como (IT);
Jenny Fabrics, Niederurnen

DANZ was founded in 2021 by Mara Danz. In her studio in Glarus, she creates new ideas, dreams and experiences. The collection you have a beautiful voice encourages you to use your own voice, to give it expression – clear, fine, coarse, loud, bright, hoarse, mute.

The collection thrives on collaborations with artists from different sectors. A long-term collaboration has been established with the last industrial screen printing manufacture in Switzerland. DANZ rummages through the archives and selects screen printing subjects in order to revive them and then reassemble and colourise them. To stir up and push forward the Swiss and especially the Glarus textile history with new energy, we also produce in Switzerland to be kinder to the environment and support local tailors.

The 2022 collection creates common ground, moments to share, celebrates life – the hope for a diverse and liveable future that breaks with heteronormative and authoritarian views.