Workshops
Upcoming
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Special Program
TRANSIENT SHIFTS – Workshop & Showing with/by Akemi Takeya
There is no workshop fee, but participants (max. 15) have to attend classes at least at 2 days and agree to take part in the showing.
About the classes
“Each class starts with voice and body training. I will teach my own basic perfomance methods of breathing and vocal techniques, for activation of body’s energy, and exercises to strengthen the inner muscles and develop perceptual sensitivity, and floor movements based on aikido. In a parallel, we explore our own presence on stage, articulation, release and tension, reaction and action, instant selection and decision, orientation, condition, timing, personal history, face, attitude, gesture and sharing something.
The second half of the class program consists of session format in adapting for the new project TRANSIENT SHIFTS – Beyond the Now in Breaking Out of the Body simply to let Us Fly Away (working title).”
This new science fiction-based performance piece is about Earthlings traveling back and forth to the fictional planet Ayviss (a mysterious planet that Takeya is currently writing about). A training camp that teaches people the know-how of this great journey will be the centerpiece of the event.
The final showing will be a performative journey to the Planet Ayviss with the participants in a work in progress.
Seestadt Studios, Am-Ostrom-Park 11, 1220 Wien (5 min walk from U2 Seestadt)
Classes: 8–12 April 2024, 18:00–19:30 (90 min. incl. short break)
Showing: 13 April 2024, 17:00
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Standard Program
Private lessons on request: workshop@akemitakeya.com
Weekly Class
Voice & Body Work Training » Open Class
26 April – 28 June 2023, 18:30–19:45: weekly every Wednesday (Gymnasium, 1190 Wien, Pyrkergasse 14)
Single and trial lessons available
➔ Registration closed
Takeya’s basic method attempts to awake one’s own nature and thus trace its origins. The basic training consists of (re)connecting yourself and outer world through her “Core Breathing Technique”. It is to deepen one’s perceptive ability in sensing an invisible inner energy in the body. In addition, the participants are going to explore their own presence, articulation, releasing and tensing, offensiveness and defensiveness, reaction and action, instant selection and decision, timing, personal history, sharing something, face, attitude, gesture, words and voice.
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Intensive Class
Let’s fly » Intermediate
15 & 16 July 2023: 2 classes of 360 min. (USZ Auf der Schmelz) @ImpulsTanzFestival 2023
With Evandro Pedroni (assistant) and live music
➔ Registration closed
This attempt requires a great deal of imagination to visualize the fantasy and the human body as a tool ‘to fly’. Participants learn how to handle the body that can fly. We fly in a loop of mechanized body in geometric movements. We fly by imitating a certain kind of bird etc. We make each one’s particular case on many levels with the desire to achieve impossible abilities – Let’s fly.
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Special Class
Schrei X8 – The Vocalic Body » Intermediate
Scheduled for autumn 2023. Dates will be announced in due course.
This workshop aims to build up own expression resources by learning Takeya’s unique method of unification of voice and body using her circular breathing technique, and also to build up instrumentalisation of the emotions in the body, leading to the creation of own compositions of vocalic screams: It forces on the activation of one’s own powers and development of primal motives, which are transformed into each one’s own performance, while imitating the barks, howls and roars of nature’s creatures and striving for variations of the voice work of charismatic artists such as Yoko Ono, Diamanda Galas, Marina Abramović etc…
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➤ Basic work concept- Download the detailed description
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