The Death At The Code!
Brig Huezo
A human body lives and dies, constantly changing. A digital body, however, does not live, yet it cannot die either. Both are monstrous in their own way: in this post-digital performance, which intertwines game design and dance, the biological body in constant decay encounters the digital body, trapped in a state without beginning or end, between life and death.
What makes The Death At The Code! special is that, whilst the production is heavily influenced by technology, Brig Huezo does not make this the central theme. Just as ballet dancers use their pointe shoes, Huezo employs live motion tracking as a choreographic tool. Through this, the four performers create an interactive gaming landscape, presented in the form of a triptych of screens.
The stage becomes an inner, interactive (soul) landscape in which the boundaries of the physical dissolve, bones and skin blend with pixels and hardware, and bodies evaporate into glitchy mistranslations. The Death At The Code! appears as an (im)mortal dance on the threshold between analogue and digital.
Text: Rika Sakalak for FAVORITEN Festival
Veranstaltungsort
LWL Museum Zeche Zollern
Grubenweg 5
44388 Dortmund
Mitwirkende
Revival Production in 2026. The cast for the production at the FAVORITEN Festival will be recast; the new cast will be announced soon.
Über die Künstler*innen
Brig Huezo (they/them*, non-binary) is a post-digital choreographer working at the intersection of body, technology, and virtual space. They studied Contemporary Dance at the University of Music and Dance Cologne and received the NRW Prize for Emerging Artists in the Performing Arts in 2024.
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Förderung
The Death At The Code! is a production by Brig Huezo, co-produced by tanzhaus nrw and TanzFaktur Köln. Supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste and the NRW KULTURsekretariat, funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne and with the support of the Rudolf Augstein Foundation.