Ein Unzeitiger Gast

In “Unzeitiger Gast” the team around the Decoder Ensemble formally approaches the historical mystery plays and translates them into a contemporary, multimedia-installative sound rush. The focus is on the finiteness of human existence – a topic often suppressed in our society. In various reenactments, individual moments are considered and relived. The cross-genre team takes its cue from dances of death (the earliest multimedia works of art in which painting, poetry, and music were combined) or from the so-called dance frenzy (a phenomenon of the early modern period), a fatal ecstasy that lasted for days. The space becomes a player in this endgame through a powerful use of visual art, light and dance. The audience is invited to wander through these different spaces and times, celebrating their own finality – or playing a trick on it in a shared future scenario. Content Note The piece deals with death as an omnipresent and repressed theme. Above all, it deals with different forms of representation and rituals of death.