shared evening: Songs for Dying (Cançons per morir) by Victor Pérez Armero (ES) // Chantal, the body is a text longing for perspective by Veza Fernandez (ES/AT)

Wed 3.9.2025 // 19.30

Work-in-progress showings
Bräuhausgasse 40, 1050 Vienna // pay as you wish/can // drinks & food

A shared evening with work-in-progress (dance-) performances, which were further developed in the context of Im_flieger CHANGING SPACES Vienna-Barcelona and Im_flieger SUPPORTS.

CHANGING SPACES Vienna–Barcelona 2025
Im_flieger Vienna in cooperation with nunart Barcelona
Residency in Vienna: 11.8.–5.9.2025
More about nunart here.

On Friday, 5.9.2025, Victor Pérez Armero will share his artistic practice in a workshop – more information here!

Songs for Dying (Cançons per morir) // Victor Pérez Armero (ES)

Songs for Dying is a courageous exploration that deals with the importance of living out our inner demons. How can we express what, when hidden and suppressed, becomes destructive? Who or what would we become?

Victor Pérez Armero questions the suppression of our true thoughts, feelings, and desires, and thus our authentic selves. His research focuses on the somatic memory of psychotropic experiences, using deep listening to promote a state of expanded consciousness. The internalized repressions that we may have as individuals and as a society should find expression: movements of opening, unfolding, overturning, in which the vertical structure of the body dissolves and transforms into a series of spirals and turns, shaped and reshaped by the need for these emotions to be seen.

I’m here for you
although I do not know who you are
and I feel you all the time
in this body of mine

Come possess me and use my body
so you can finally be free
free yourself from me

I need you to be seen
but I fear who you might be
and what will it be
of me?

The void, the darkness, the unknown
pull me away from you
but I know your time has come

Break me into pieces
and put me back together

Who are we supposed to be?
Who do we become?
You and me?

Choreography/dance: Victor Pérez Armero
External support: Laura Vilar
Vocal coaching: Veza Fernandez
Supported by nunart and Cardant Cultura.

Chantal, the body is a text longing for perspective // Veza Fernandez (ES/AT)

Each orifice sucking each other becomes a membrane holding each other accountable.
Uhm, so stuck to my bones you are…
My bones made into drums.
Es spannt. It pulls. I cry.
And I keep asking: what should we examine here today?
You only answer
for that we shall move towards the extremes, the infinite, the very moment of perceiving.

Chantal is an essayistic, visceral text choreography that radically redesigns the dispositive of the anatomical theatre exploring what the staging of the inside beyond patriarchal norms and dominant regimes of attention thinks, mobilises and imagines. It is an intimate anatomic spectacle that discloses the body as an overflowing text. Chantal is a manifold figure that unfolds from within the display of each of the voices that metabolises her quests for revealing the body making processes at stake while loving, thinking, seeing and hurting. She is a living anatomy doll that invites an audience to study alongside her how to witness a theatre from the limits of the skin, blinking between eyes-ears and sighing deep inwards to listen. She is a lesbian Venus growing from her songs of broken hearts and metaphysical poems, inviting to open up to the way we order the parts that constitute us and our identities. She is a poet slipping through an actress, a sculptor through a lover, the aphonic bailarina through a teacher. Chantal opens and dissects her body of many bodies reciting text from one body into the next body, one language into the next language, one register into the next register.

Concept, text, choreography and performance: Veza Fernandez
Music composition, voice and performance: Zosia Hołubowska
Voice and performance: Luis Murillo
Costume design and set design: Sarah Sternat
Dialoguing video art, installation: Mariya Vasileyva
Light design: Leticia Skrycky
Text dramaturgy and choreographic advice/support: Claire Lefèvre
Research and dramaturgical advice/support: Nerea González
Production: mollusca productions

A coproduction of Verein für expressive Angelegenheiten und brut Wien. With the kind support of SPIT Festival/TQW Vienna, Dancehouse Melbourne, Im_flieger Vienna, MA7 – City of Vienna, and the Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport, Austria.