Anna Mancarella

Anna Mancarella, born in socialist Poland and arriving in Germany as a refugee at age two, discovered dance early. She moved from a jazz dance group that reached the 2nd Bundesliga to a teenager’s fascination with techno, drawn by the music and club culture. She often sneaked into clubs as a minor to watch performances and to dance passionately on the speakers. Today, Anna fuses her dancer’s intuition with electronic sounds and performative expression, creating a distinct voice at the intersection of movement and techno. Starting at 18, Anna began DJing vinyl independently. She soon played at youth centers, private parties, and then regularly headlined bars and clubs in Bonn and Cologne. Some of them even with regular residency. She hosted her own event series at Cologne’s Jaki Club. She now blends these roots with her dance and performance experience to forge a unique voice between movement and techno. She is renowned for high-energy performances and has graced stages at festivals and clubs from Berlin to Lisbon alongside Jennifer Cardini, Erobique, Coma and others. Anna holds a Master’s degree, which she earned with a thesis on the influence of John Cage’s music on the FLUXUS art movement. Fluxus brought „Time“ into art, creating performances as an art form. For several years, she managed the German blog for Electronic Beats by T-Mobile, sharing daily insights into art, design, and music, conducting interviews with notable artists and reporting on events in Europe. She notably shared the stage with James Blake at the Cologne Electronic Beats Festival and drew the attention of fashion designers, including Karl Lagerfeld, who booked her for events.

After a pause to focus on her private life, she returns to the turntables with something special: her own tracks. “I felt the urge to come back and express something that was hidden inside me—my own music. I wasn’t ‘done’ with being a DJ; the urge to express something deep inside my soul drove me back for a powerful comeback.” Driven by ambition and passion, Anna strives to take her sound to the global stage and make it resonate worldwide. Her themes center on freedom and expression through movement. Anna refuses to be boxed into a single genre, often answering that she plays and produces what speaks to her and what she wants to give the dancefloor in the moment—each room and night is different, and her music resonates with the people around her.