Air Ways is a visually striking dance-theatre work by Guy Weizman and Roni Haver, created around the tension between science and spirituality. First presented in 2010 at the Staatstheater Oldenburg, the production brings together contemporary dance, live orchestral music, and choral singing to explore the human desire to transcend the physical world and reach a higher dimension.
The choreography is built around contrasts: the rational and the mysterious, the physical and the spiritual, vulnerability and strength. Eleven dancers share the stage with the orchestra, creating an unusual environment in which bodies and music become part of the same constantly changing landscape. Strong physical encounters, sensual duets, sculptural images, and moments of stillness give the work an atmosphere that moves between ritual and contemporary theatre.
Music plays a central role in Air Ways. The production combines works from the 20th and 21st centuries, including music by Arvo Pärt, Michael Gordon, and Rosario Flores, performed live by the orchestra together with the professional choir Consensus Vocalis. Rather than functioning as a background to the choreography, the music becomes an active force that shapes the rhythm, atmosphere, and emotional architecture of the performance.
Weizman and Haver’s choreography turns the stage into a space of transformation. The dancers appear to search for another state of existence, moving between intimate human contact and larger collective formations. Air Ways ultimately becomes a poetic investigation of what lies beyond the visible and measurable – and of the human impulse to “take off” towards something unknown.
The production was later presented in the Netherlands, including performances in Hengelo, with Club Guy & Roni, the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, and Consensus Vocalis.