FINITE

Poetic images create a communal ritual that lies somewhere between mythology and performance, seeking a joyful surrender to this ultimate consequence of life.


Three Norns sit at the trunk of the World Ash. There, they spin, knot, and sever the thread of life, thus determining the individual fate of humanity: life-giving, timing, and death-bringing. Like their mythological sisters in other cultures, the Germanic goddesses of fate embody the power over life and death beyond human control.


In the secularized present, death has become the greatest social taboo: To counter the horror of its unavailability, postponing the end through a "good" and healthy lifestyle becomes an individual project, and the struggle to halt physical decline and the aging process becomes a life's work.


In their musical theater piece ENDLICH, composer Asia Ahmetjanova and director Franziska Angerer meditate on our relationship to death and how we deal with our own decline. With a group of elderly people, they confront us with our own finiteness and old age, with all its connotations.


Poetic images create a communal ritual between mythology and performance, seeking a joyful surrender to this ultimate consequence of life.


Spotlight

Latvian-born, Switzerland-based composer and pianist Asia Ahmetjanova is one of the most exciting young artists in contemporary music. In her work, she explores the boundaries between an experimental approach to musical material and the performativity of the human body.


She places particular emphasis on the individual approach of her performers and develops her compositions closely with the ensembles. She is a member of the Ensemble ö! She has previously collaborated with ensembles such as the Basel Sinfonietta, the Neue Vokalsolisten Stuttgart, and Klangforum Wien. FINALLY is her first commission for a musical theater and her first collaboration with Ensemble Mosaik.


Approx. 90 minutes / No interval