About – Heart Chor

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Heart Chor

In 2017, Danilo Timm started Heart Chor with the intention of bringing passionate and talented people together to sing and perform. A thoroughly loving collective has formed and over time become something more than a family.

Heart Chor sings and performs out of joy, curiousity and passion, radically spreading the message of LOVE. Body positivity, self-love and acceptance are its core values. With its trademark The Ode to Nipples. Heart Chor supports the Free the Nipple Movement. Mutter Unser - a feminist reinterpretation of the Lord's Prayer - is a devotion to the luscious and cheerful Holy Mother. In collaboration with DJ Alma Linda Heart Chor promotes sexual freedom through their common project Homoerotic Aerobics.

Heart Chor performs at music festivals such as Garbicz Festival, Fusion Festival and Bucht der Träumer as well as at many cultural events, for example at Feldkunst Festival, Festsaal Kreuzberg and Sophiensaele and at the city's legendary night venues such as Kater Blau, Sisyphos, Kit Kat Club and YAAM. In 2019 Berlin saw the premiere of Heart Chor - The Musical, involving over 50 performers. A two-hour-long musical journey was staged in a large circus tent to an audience of 1,300 guests. In 2020 Heart's Club, a self-developed club and cabaret experience, was staged for the first time, as well as the Kaos Karaoke. In 2021, Heart Chor took their audience on a Quest for Joy, an immersive musical theatre performance supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

Photo by Fabricio Timm

Danilo Timm

Danilo Timm is Heart Chor’s artistic and musical director. As musical-theatre actor in Brazil, they have played lead roles in many productions such as Hair, Spring Awakening, Grey Gardens and Xanadu. As musical director, they have been responsible for plays such as Hedwig and The Angry Inch, directing concerts with its Brazilian cast and John Cameron Mitchell in Rio de Janeiro.

In 2014, Danilo moved to Berlin to explore new artistic and life possibilities. As a singer and composer, they are part of the band Aquafaba, celebrating South American rhythms and transculturality and the band Passiflora Live, exploring improvised musical performances with loops and vocal effects. Their drag persona - Deloris Delight - plays with cabaret elements, live improvisation and audience engaging experiences.

Their love for people led them to direct Heart Chor - and later also Oh My Choir - two experimental choirs that became their life thread sewing many possibilities. With their experience as a singing teacher and vocal coach, Danilo Timm keeps exploring the unity and expressive power of the choir, constantly searching for new ways to inspire, touch and entertain crowds in and around Berlin.