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Program / Public Moves

Akemi Takeya

Now-ing: Automatism-Dance

Five people stand on a sports court, one person with a microphone and headphones faces away from the camera while the others look toward them
Akemi Takeya © Karolina Miernik


MQ Forecourt
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As part of the ImPulsTanz Festival, Public Moves offers free outdoor dance and movement classes every day on the MQ forecourt (main courtyard) of the MuseumsQuartier. These classes, which are also suitable for beginners, are led by various international instructors who teach styles ranging from hip-hop to contemporary jazz.

With Akemi’s approach, Public Moves invites participants to explore “Now-ing”: it leads to the clear, tangible role the body plays in this very now – a moment that often serves as a bridge between automatism, meaning automatic, unconscious behaviour, and control. Movement and dance instructions focus on the pleasure of play. This gives rise to spontaneous reactions and actions that emerge from immediate experience, rather than from predetermined plans.

Special

All Public Moves participants receive free admission to the MQ anniversary exhibition “Vision and Resistance” at MQ Freiraum through August 7. Simply show your Public Moves registration at the ticket counter at MQ Freiraum.
MQ Freiraum opening hours: Tue. – Sun., 10:00 to 18:00.

MQ Forecourt

Black-and-white 3D view of a building complex with a marked location at the main entrance forecourt.
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