Thu 6.7.2023 // 19.30
Photo: Ruta Ruzeviciute
Thu 6.7.2023 // 19.30
Bräuhausgasse 40, 1050 Vienna / work in progress / performance / pay as you wish / bar & buffet
Concept and performance: Jolyane Langlois & Thandiwe Mqokeli
Outside Eye: Iris Omari & Daphna Horenczyk
Thanks to the Im_flieger Team: Johanna Nielson, Anita Kaya, Sara Lanner and Agnes Schneidewind
Inspired by the powerful chance encounter that brought them together, dance artists Jolyane Langlois and Thandiwe Mqokeli investigate connectivity and presence. Considering connection as the existence of energy between people, they are exploring how this energy is nurtured and are testing its malleability and force.
What makes the first spark last? How to feel presence in the distance?
Our bodies become material to convey poetic images about human connection.
We wondered where hope lives in the body and found it in our feet.
Walking, strolling, drifting as an act of resistance and immediate way of unfolding stories.
12 180km apart, and together again, we practice arriving at the destination in every steps.
Fotos: Franzi Kreis
Jolyane Langlois (CA/AT) (she/her) is a dance artist from Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal with ancestral roots in the Mi’gmaq of Gespe’gewa’gi. After graduating from the professional training program at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre in 2012, she worked as an interpreter, collaborator and movement facilitator with a myriad of independent choreographers and companies in Canada and internationally. Currently based in Vienna, Austria, she can be seen in the works of Magdalena Forster, Daphna Horenzcyk, Barbis Ruder, Doris Uhlich, VRUM Performing Arts Collective and CieLaroque/Helene Weinzerl.
Thandiwe Mqokeli (SA) (she/her) is a South African dancer, choreographer, dance and movement facilitator. She is the founder of a children’s program Washaaa Indigenous Games and Art Competition. She studied performing arts and trained her artistry at the Abelusi Performing artists Program. Trained dance at Jazzart Dance Theatre company. As a freelance artist performing wrote and performs her productions MaMeLa (listen) and currently conceptualizing a new work called SingaBantu (We Are People) ,an Outreach Teacher at Windybrow Theatre and Touring the world with the Dance Factory/ Dada Masilo’s Giselle and Dada Masilo’s Sacrifice.