Upcoming live performances at the Temps D’Images Festival 2025, Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany.
(EN)
The Death At The Code! is a postdigital performance bringing together game design and dance. It includes human as well as non-human performers, none of whom hold absolute power. Between the two, it is unclear what is more monstrous: the human body in constant decay or the everlasting representation without any conception of death and thus of life, forever caught between the worlds.
Remixing references from TikTok, memes, gaming culture, cyberpunk as well as Gothic art, the performance unfolds in the space between physical and digital. Playing with motion tracking and accompanied by a screen triptych, The Death At The Code! focuses on process and uses gaps and mistranslations as its (non-)material. The self is expanded across the physidigital, and subjectivity becomes blurry. 
Code, dance, pixels, hardware, longing, hormones, bones, skins – everything can be transformed into another, anything can be connected. This becoming cyborg is neither pain-free nor strictly utopian. Instead, it makes necessary a constant negotiation of death, desire and existence. Technology forces its own claims onto the production, avenging the heresy of creating a being that can never be brought to life. A vampire living within the night of the code, the metahuman dances with bodies of flesh and muscle. The Death At The Code! finds beauty in the grotesque, the glitch, the wound.
(DE)
The Death At The Code! ist eine postdigitale Performance, die Gamedesign und Tanz, menschliche und nichtmenschliche Darsteller:innen zusammenbringt. Monstrositäten sind beide: Der biologische Körper in ständigem Verfall und die ewige Darstellung ohne Vorstellung von Tod und Leben, für immer gefangen zwischen den Welten.
In einem Referenz-Remix aus TikTok, Meme- und Gaming-Kultur, Cyberpunk und Gothik konzentriert sich die Performance auf Lücken und Fehlübersetzungen. Das Selbst erstreckt sich über das gesamte Spektrum des Physigitalen, zwischen Körper und Repräsentation verschwimmt jegliche Subjektivität.
Code, Tanz, Pixel, Sehnsucht, Hardware, Hormone, Knochen, Haut – alles kann ins andere übersetzt und in endlosen Konstellationen verlinkt werden. Dieses Cyborg-Werden ist weder schmerzfrei noch strikt utopisch. Stattdessen verlangt es konstante Aushandlungen von Tod, Begehren und Existenz.
Technologie zwingt der Produktion ihre eigenen Ansprüche auf – Rache für die Ketzerei, ein Wesen zu erschaffen, das nie zum Leben erweckt werden kann. Das Metahuman, ein Vampir in der Nacht des Codes, tanzt mit Körpern aus Fleisch und Muskeln. The Death At The Code! findet Schönheit im Grotesken, in der offenen Wunde, im Glitch.
Photo: Studio Pramudiya ©2024 The Death At The Code by Brig Huezo
Photo: Studio Pramudiya ©2024 The Death At The Code by Brig Huezo
Photo: Studio Pramudiya ©2024 The Death At The Code by Brig Huezo
Photo: Studio Pramudiya ©2024 The Death At The Code by Brig Huezo
Photo: Studio Pramudiya ©2024 The Death At The Code by Brig Huezo
Photo: Studio Pramudiya ©2024 The Death At The Code by Brig Huezo
Photo: Studio Pramudiya ©2024 The Death At The Code by Brig Huezo
Photo: Studio Pramudiya ©2024 The Death At The Code by Brig Huezo
Photo: Studio Pramudiya ©2024 The Death At The Code by Brig Huezo
Photo: Studio Pramudiya ©2024 The Death At The Code by Brig Huezo
Photo: Studio Pramudiya ©2024 The Death At The Code by Brig Huezo
Photo: Studio Pramudiya ©2024 The Death At The Code by Brig Huezo
Photo: Studio Pramudiya ©2024 The Death At The Code by Brig Huezo
Photo: Studio Pramudiya ©2024 The Death At The Code by Brig Huezo
Photo: Studio Pramudiya ©2024 The Death At The Code by Brig Huezo
Photo: Studio Pramudiya ©2024 The Death At The Code by Brig Huezo
Photo: Studio Pramudiya ©2024 The Death At The Code by Brig Huezo
Photo: Studio Pramudiya ©2024 The Death At The Code by Brig Huezo
Photo: Studio Pramudiya ©2024 The Death At The Code by Brig Huezo
Photo: Studio Pramudiya ©2024 The Death At The Code by Brig Huezo
Photo: Studio Pramudiya ©2024 The Death At The Code by Brig Huezo
Photo: Studio Pramudiya ©2024 The Death At The Code by Brig Huezo
Photo: Studio Pramudiya ©2024 The Death At The Code by Brig Huezo
Photo: Studio Pramudiya ©2024 The Death At The Code by Brig Huezo
Photo: Studio Pramudiya ©2024 The Death At The Code by Brig Huezo
Photo: Studio Pramudiya ©2024 The Death At The Code by Brig Huezo
Photo: Studio Pramudiya ©2024 The Death At The Code by Brig Huezo
Photo: Studio Pramudiya ©2024 The Death At The Code by Brig Huezo
Photo: Studio Pramudiya ©2024 The Death At The Code by Brig Huezo
Photo: Studio Pramudiya ©2024 The Death At The Code by Brig Huezo
Photo: Studio Pramudiya ©2024 The Death At The Code by Brig Huezo
Photo: Studio Pramudiya ©2024 The Death At The Code by Brig Huezo
Credits 
(EN)
Artistic direction, post-digital choreography, physigital dance and concept: Brig Huezo
Dance and performance co-creation: Darya Myasnikova, Vivien Kovarbašić, Elin Tezel 
Choreographic assistance: Celia Valverde Gerner
Metahuman identity and Motion Capture artist: Brig Huezo
3D and sound programming artist: Tim Pauli 
Unreal Engine 3D Artist: Buse Simon [BUSESART] 
Technical artist Unreal Engine developer: Lisa Kaschubat, Mateusz Bratkowski
Dramaturgy and text: Mia Hofner 
3D costume design: Kerima Elfaza 
Sound design: Cedric Schuster [MYEN] 
Stage and lighting design: Chiara Tess Krogull
Production assistance: Jonas Leifert

A production by Brig Huezo, co-produced by Tanzhaus NRW and Tanzfaktur Cologne. Supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste and NRW KULTURsekretariat funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Cultural Office of the City of Cologne, and with the support of the Rudolf Augstein Foundation.

(DE)
Künstlerische Leitung, post-digitale Choreographie, physidigital Performance und Konzeption: Brig Huezo
Tanz und Ko-Kreation: Darya Myasnikova, Vivien Kovarbašić, Elin Tezel
Choreographische Assistenz: Celia Valverde Gerner
Metahuman Identity und Motion Capture Artist: Brig Huezo
3D und Soundprogrammierung: Tim Pauli 
Unreal Engine 3D Artist: Buse Simon [BUSESART] 
Technische Entwicklung Unreal Engine: Lisa Kaschubat, Mateusz Bratkowski
Dramaturgie und Text: Mia Hofner
3D-Kostüm Design: Kerima Elfaza
Sound Design: Cedric Schuster [MYEN] 
Bühnenbild und Licht Design: Chiara Tess Krogull
Produktionsassistenz: Jonas Leifert

Eine Produktion von Brig Huezo, koproduziert durch das Tanzhaus nrw und die Tanzfaktur Köln. Gefördert vom  Fonds Darstellende Künste aus Mitteln der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste und NRW KULTURsekretariats gefördert vom Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Kulturamt der Stadt Köln, sowie mit Unterstützung der Rudolf Augstein Stiftung.
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