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TAKT Festival 202615. – 18. Oktober
Das LOT, Absberggasse 31, 110 Wien
PROGRAMME
THURSDAY, 15 OCTOBER
20:00 · SYNESTHETIC PROJECT: ZEF
Nika Bauman, Maartje Pasman, Sarah Maria Dragović, Brian Lawlor
Costumes & props by SALICULA, Ana Marković
Zef is the newest music theatre piece of the multidisciplinary ensemble Synesthetic Project. At the core of the project lies the ancient story of Persephone - traditionally one of abduction, rape, a grieving mother, and the cyclical return of the seasons. In Zef, these mythic structures are reframed as reflections of today’s female experience. Drawing from mythology, dreams, feminist theory, and autobiographical fragments, the piece intertwines music, movement, and text and portrays a hybrid, old yet new, figure of Persephone. The four performers on stage invite the audience into an underground club and onto a psychedelic, ridiculous and slightly triggering journey through death and back.
21:30 · FESTIVAL OPENING PARTY ft. BRIAN LAWLOR
Brian Lawlor, the multi-instrumentalist and member of the Synesthetic Project ensemble slips into the role of a DJ, combining beats with live instruments, electronic with the traditional and the classical with the unorthodox, ensuring a festive opening of TAKT’s second festival edition.
FRIDAY, 16 OCTOBER
19:00 · OPEN DISCUSSION: GENTLE SHADOWS
with Ada Günther, Özlem Bulut, Atil Aggündüz & Mahan Mirarab
Moderated by Ana Marković
How do we live with our own shadows? This year’s Open Discussion explores the darker sides of artistic life: shadows of fatigue, burnout, self-doubt, the clashes of the personal with the professional, of illness and fear, of worry for the safety of our loved ones. Together, we ask how art shapes our lives - and how our lives shape our work - and whether we can build gentler, more supportive ways of navigating these shadows.
20:00 · DIGITAL EXHIBITION & JAM EL JOY
Victoria Nazarova · Özlem Bulut & Orwa Saleh
One of Vienna’s most beloved photographers, Victoria Nazarova, presents her newest series in a performative, digital format, exploring the intimate interplay of body, light and shadow. The exhibition is accompanied by a concert by Orwa Saleh and Özlem Bulut, whose project Jam el Joy blends oud, voice, original compositions and electronic elements, celebrating cultural roots and artistic journeys.
21:30 · MUSICAL BODIES
Golnar Shahyar & Naïma Mazic
For the first time at TAKT Festival, musician/composer Golnar Shahyar and dancer/choreographer Naïma Mazic come together in MUSICAL BODIES, exploring dualities, life cycles and the ambivalence of choice and feeling. Reflections on topics such as contradictions of choice and ambivalence of feelings will find their way into the performance that mainly revolves around improvisation with pre-composed elements, such as music written by female composers and choreography.
SATURDAY, 17 OCTOBER
20:00 · CUMULUS: SYMBIOS
Stina Joliden, Cesar Carrera, Hanna Magdalena Gödl, Vida Vojić & Amanda Wisselgren
Forms move, shift and transform, inviting the imagination into a visual language of silhouettes, rhythm and sound. Symbios explores a form of storytelling that awakens our associations to shape, movement, and sound.On stage, contemporary dancers in metamorphic costumes share space with musicians. A wordless dialogue grows, where body and sound reflect each other in motion.
21:30 · FASHION SHOW REIMAGINED
Rojin Sharafi, Helena Vancura & Chiara Aprea
Costume design by Amanda Wisselgren
TAKT’s “Fashion Show Reimagined” returns as a festival format where fashion becomes a starting point for movement, sound, and improvisation. Garments are explored beyond their original form, opening up new ways of experiencing clothing through the body. Each edition brings together different artists and perspectives, creating an evolving space where fashion, performance, music and experimentation meet.
SUNDAY, 18 OCTOBER
20:00 · GRANDMOTHER'S EVENING GOWN
Flora Geißelbrecht
Solo music theatre for viola, voice, and shadows brings music, overtone singing, shadow play, lighting, and stage transformations together. Wearing her grandmother’s evening gown and weaving her favourite song into overtone singing, the performer moves through a world of fabric, shadows, music, and memory. Handmade shadow play, translucent silk, and live transformations reveal and conceal the artist, creating a fragile connection between generations of women, artists, and stories.
21:30 · SANDPIT
Simone Lorenzo Benini & Miriam Budzáková
The sand is a metaphor for the body, a vessel of infinite possibilities for exploring the ambiguity of our memories, which are often unclear and intertwined with fantasy, fears, and desires. It becomes the symbolic tool of transformation. Memories morph into new possibilities of existence, merging past and present, taking on ambiguous and diverse forms, accessing the subconscious, and allowing energies, emotions, images, and fantasies to surface.
https://www.taktkulturverein.com/takt-festival
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