YA! (2024)

At the center of this immersive and interactive dance choir is the plant yarrow. Nine humans are weaving fragments of melodies received by yarrow into time-fogging moving sound fields.

Trying to step into the ever fleeting moments of yarrow's sphere, they wonder how they can show up without destroying its elusive nature with their human bones and flesh.

YARROW- what stores, what charges

what is carried away with the wind and disappears

YARROW- the constant in the disappearance

the mirror of oneness is the multitude

This process marks a new chapter in Angela`s work. For the first time the artist is working with a bigger group of performers from Theater Thikwa and introduces them to her specific methods of encountering plant entities.

Choreography, creation and music: Angela Vitovec in co-creation with yarrow
Creation, performance and music: Kate Nankervis, Debrecina Arega, Kristin Feuerer, André Nittel, Laura Rammo, Frank Schulz, Heidi Bruck, Laura Siegmund, Ann Trépanier in co-creation with yarrow
Set design: Folke Koebberling with a wooden floor built and designed by David Herman
Outside eye: Ana Lessing Menjibar
Voice coach: Irena Tomazin
Assistants: Linn Wille, Wolfgang Ullrich
Production: Theater Thikwa Berlin

“ ‚YA!’ is weaving a unique plait of movements and melodies received by yarrow into a moving and dancing landscape, a choir that evokes the presence of yarrow, its light and its darkness, its joy and collectivity, its creative force and protection into the space and into our hearts, body and spirit. It is a plait where anyone can be taken in again at any time. We are inviting Yarrow to attach to all the small details in us and to give room to our different and unique bodily rhythms and melodies.“