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LOCATION:Deutsche Oper Berlin\, Berlin
SUMMARY:FINITE
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DESCRIPTION:In their music theatre piece FINITE\, composer Asia Ahmetjanova
  and director Franziska Angerer meditate on our relationship to death and 
 how we deal with our own decay. In poetic images\, a communal ritual emerg
 es between mythology and performance\, which searches for a lustful surren
 der to this ultimate consequence of life.\nThree norns are sitting at the 
 foot of the world tree\, spinning\, knotting and severing the threads of l
 ife and thus determining the fates of individual mortals. They give life\,
  fashion its course and bring it to an end. As do their mythological siste
 r figures in other cultures\, these Germanic goddesses of fate wield the p
 ower of life and death over human beings. In our secularised times death i
 s now the No.1 taboo subject\, and to temper the awfulness of it all\, we 
 make it our personal business to delay its arrival by cultivating “good
 ” habits and living healthily. We make it our mission in life to fend of
 f our own decay and arrest the ageing process.\n\nIn their work of musical
  theatre\, ENDLICH\, composer Asia Ahmetjanova and director Franziska Ange
 rer reflect on our relationship to death and our response to the disintegr
 ation of our bodies. Through the medium of a group of elderly people\, the
 y force us to contemplate our own finiteness and old age with all that the
 y imply. Poetic images give rise to a communal ritual blending mythology a
 nd performance\, in which we seek to commit with gusto to this final conse
 quence of life.\n\nSpotlightThe Latvian-born composer and pianist Asia Ahm
 etjanova\, today a Swiss resident\, is one of the shooting stars of contem
 porary music. Her work explores the borderland between an experimental app
 roach to musical material and the performativity of the human body. She se
 ts great store on her performers bringing their own approaches to the work
  and her compositions take shape in close collaboration with the respectiv
 e ensembles. She has already worked with ensembles such as the Basel Sinfo
 nietta\, Ensemble ö!\, Ensemble Phoenix Basel\, Neue Vokalsolisten Stuttg
 art and Klangforum Wien. ENDLICH is her first commission for a music theat
 re and her first major collaboration with ensemble mosaik.
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