à mort

Ein choreografischer Liederzyklus für drei Stimmen

“à mort” (French) is announcement of the worst: “I will fight you to death.”. But it's also excess and expression of hyperbolic enthusiasm. “Do you love me?” – “à mort, hell yeah, with all I've got!”stuttered in enigmatic states of ecstasy.
“à mort” is a performative dedication to radical aliveness in dark times and against all odds. The choreography is situated in a Memento mori inspired installation, where the constructed hierarchy between human bodies and the more than human world dissolves: Bones next to rock, wood next to hair, armor next to skin, claws next to fingers. Hosting erratic rhythms, logic of animal behavior, objects of violence, between beautiful and bizarre, this evolving landscape shapes choreographies of destruction and construction.
An ensemble of performers and musicians explores processes of dying and killing and exposes the grotesque, yet all – too – human desire to dominate, even death. While three women play hunters and warriors, the horns blow. In a dying world the feminine voice emerges as powerful physical presence.

Claire Vivianne Sobottke, Choreographie, Konzept, Performance
Stellan Veloce, Französisches Horn, Komposition, Musik
Abigail Sanders, Musikalische Mitarbeit
Moss Beynon Juckes, Von und Mit
Stina Fors, Von und Mit
Claire Vivianne Sobottke, Von und Mit
Clementine Pohl, Raum, Objekte
Yoav Admoni, Raum, Objekte
Catalina Fernandez, Lichtdesign, Technische Leitung
Lea Kieffer, Kostüm
Simone Graf, Künstlerische Produktionsleitung

Ein Ensemble aus Performer*innen und Musiker*innen untersucht Prozesse des Sterbens und Tötens und hinterfragt das groteske, allzu menschliche Begehren zu beherrschen – selbst den Tod.