The new work by Akemi Takeya is a performative dance-theatre-music piece with visual interventions based on a surrealistic science fiction fantasy in which Takeya presents “A rare Journey between the Planet Ayviss and our Earth”. In this performance, the desire to achieve (seemingly) impossible abilities is expressed on many levels. In keeping with the theme of flying, one of the oldest yearnings in human history, it reflects the urge to always be free and unrestricted, to expand one’s own horizons and to immerse oneself in the fantastic and unknown.

As a dramaturgical structure, the performance asserts “Training Camp” in which an instructor attempts to teach the participants individual elements of out-of-body traveling, non-verbal and telepathic forms of communication and flying itself in several sessions. Each of these sessions has a different focus – in terms of content, physical, vocal, atmospheric – and is orientated towards the essential characteristics of training as an almost ritualistic sequence of exercises, repetition, failure and development.

The piece combines Takeya’s methods of voice manipulation and modulation with complex ritualistic choreographic sequences. The peculiar humor of her work also plays a central role in this piece.

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Artistic Direction, Text, Object, Photography & Choreography Akemi Takeya Scenography Hannes Wurm Video & Photography fishy Sound & Light Sebastian Bauer Photography Helmut Prochart Organization Vladimir und Estragon Production IMEKA 2024 Special thanks to ImPulsTanz Festival, Seestadt Studios, Rennweg Studios, das Schaufenster, partner in crime Supported by Wien Kultur, BMKOES and Bezirkskultur Donaustadt