Theateratelier
Schedule
Sat, 28 Mar, 2026 at 03:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Kulturhaus Brotfabrik | Wien, WI
Theateratelier - Workshop mit Veza Maria Fernandez WengerSamstag, 28. März 2026 / 15 - 18 Uhr
Kulturhaus Brotfabrik
Workshop mit Veza Maria Fernandez Wenger
Dieser Workshop ist eine Einladung, dem Pathos Raum zu geben: all den Gefühlen, Worten und Melodien, die oft als „zu viel“ oder „zu laut“ gelten. Was in anderen Situationen unterdrückt wird, wird hier zur queer-feministischen Kraft. Pathos dient als Werkzeug, um Körper zu bewegen und echte Nähe zu schaffen. Es geht nicht um Perfektion, sondern um echten Kontakt. Durch Gesang und Bewegung werden Emotionen und Erinnerungen aus dem Körper gelöst. In der Gruppe verwandeln sich Erschöpfung und Lust durch die Stimme in eine kraftvolle, gemeinsame Präsenz.
Der Workshop findet auf Englisch und Deutsch statt.
This workshop is an invitation to dwell in pathos: in the endless streams of words and melodies leaking from our pathetic, overfeeling, undisciplined souls. Those emotional places we were taught to hide, to not be too much, too loud, too emotional, too needy. Those expressions of hurt, ache, love, pity, desire, and insist on drama as a mode of survival. Pathos has been judged, feminized, ridiculed, and disciplined into silence. Here, it is reclaimed it as a queer feminist force: a political and performative technology that moves bodies, produces intimacies, and refuses neutrality. A way of speaking and singing that does not aim for clarity or mastery, but for contact, contagion, and trembling presence.
Participants work with emotions stored in flesh and memory, with songs they cried to, scenes they learned by heart, with the excesses of divas, hysterics, lovers, and revolutionaries. Participants will allow desperate speeches for change and understanding to pour out. Speeches that do not seek permission, that keep coming because they are fueled by longing for connection, touch, and recognition.
Starting from bodily sensation, participants will listen to the heart, the wet eyes, the cracking voice, the tongue that cannot stop speaking. Participants will practice trusting the flow of speaking and singing alone and together, letting language emerge whether it already exists or needs to be invented, mispronounced, stretched, or moaned into being.
Participants will notice how bodies transform through voice, and how voices are shaped by exhaustion, pleasure, memory, and affect. Expect to whisper, wail, laugh, cry, repeat yourself, lose the plot, and find themselves again entangled with others, carried by the power of pathos and her unruly sisters.
Veza Fernandez 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 entwines singing, writing, dancing and speaking practices as bodily forms of study, experimentation and performance. Her pieces are sensitive and intense, casting polyphonically a convocation of voices and presences that yearn to move and to be moved. Her background stretches between Philology, Pedagogy, Theater, Music and Contemporary Dance. Fields that in a way or the other influence her artistic researches and modus operandi within art making and art presenting. Her work is strongly rooted locally, infiltrating from within the underground scene bigger Dance and Theater institutions. She holds a Masters in Choreography from the DAS Graduate school (Amsterdam Academy for Theatre and Dance). Her work has been shown amongst other in brut Wien, Tanzquartier Vienna, Sophiensaele Berlin, Gesnerallee Zürich, de Singel Antwerp, La Casa Encendida Madrid.
Foto: ©Hanna Fasching
Where is it happening?
Kulturhaus Brotfabrik, Absberggasse 27/Stiege 3,Wien, Österreich, Austria
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