Suspírame Lira
Veza Fernández’ uniquely expressive and emotive performances develop from a feeling in her guts and get deep under the audience’s skin. Her new group piece is an anatomical theatre of a somewhat different kind: an opening up of bodies, but without a scalpel. A contemplation of what lies within, without a categorising and separating gaze. Fernández travels far back in medical history for this investigation, to a time when the human body was still associated with fantastic, miraculous notions and perceptions, and before the image of the body as being made up of individual parts established itself as the sole central approach of an essentialist understanding of the body. With five dancers and live music by Tony Wagner, Suspírame Lira conceives a physicality that cannot be limited and defined by a layer of skin. That breathes, radiates, permeates, echoes, touches. Many bodies merge into one in this sensuous, rebellious choreographic anatomy.
is a dance, voice and performance artist based in Vienna. Her work deals with the realms of the poetics and politics of vocal expression as a place of relation, imagination and transformation. She entangles singing, writing, dancing and speaking practices as bodily forms of study, experimentation and performance. She holds a Master’s in Choreography from the DAS Graduate School (Amsterdam Academy for Theatre and Dance). Her work has been shown a. o. at brut Wien, Tanzquartier Wien, Sophiensaele, Berlin, Gessnerallee, Zurich, de Singel, Antwerp, and La Casa Encendida, Madrid.
Credits
Concept, choreography, performance Veza Fernández Choreographic support, performance Camilla Schielin, Gergõ D. Farkas, mirabella paidamwoyo* dziruni, Mursal Heydari Music, performance Tony Wagner Costume, styling Isabelle Edi Stage design Sarah Sternat Assistance, accompanying video art Sam Fuentes Light design Christina Bergner Choreographic and dramaturgical support Asher O’ Gorman Research, dramaturgical support Nerea González Anatomy and somatic advisor Oneka von Schrader Sound engineering Lukas Froschauer Accompanying workshops Catalina Insignares, Jamila Johnson-Small Production, management mollusca productions Co-produced by Veza Fernández and Tanzquartier Wien With support from the Municipal Department of Cultural Affairs, Vienna, the Austrian Federal Ministry of the Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sports, Bears in the Park and das weisse haus