Video + Trailer for Amadora Llama by Veza Fernández, 20191-channel stage video installation, 50''Trailer, 1'Tanzquartier WienConcept, choreography, performance: Veza FernándezChoreography, performance: Alex Bailey, Robyn/Hugo Le Brigand, Lau Lukkarila, Martina de Dominicis, Marta Navaridas, Denise Palmieri, Salome Schneebeli, Ana ThreatMusic: Ana ThreatDramaturgy: Christina LederhaasVideo: Magdalena FischerPolyphony and vocal coaching: Clélia ColonnaCostumes: Nina DivitschekSound: Stefan EhgartnerLight design: Christina BergnerProduction: Eva Holzinger, Sophie SchmeiserIn Veza Fernández’s latest ensemble piece Amadora Llama, the dancers, a congregation of nuns, passionately and yearningly embrace the mystic union. These ecstatic experiences of the religious order comprise polyphonic dances and texts. Inspired by poems written by 16th century Spanish nun, mystic, reformist and poet Teresa of Ávila, Veza Fernández examines queer-feminist embodiments in religious contexts. The profound emotionality of saints and mystics holds emancipatory potential – and might even enable erotic self-empowerment. An awakening from blind lethargy, putting one’s trust into unfamiliar, emotional, mysterious, intuitive chaos.