Heidegger and the question
In Division Two of „Being and Time“ Martin Heidegger developed
the most significant analysis on the subject of death in the 20th Century.
Through the anticipation of death “the being-toward-death”
the socalled Da-sein experiences the essence of its constitution, to be
exact the “being-in-the-world”. Da-sein means a project (outline)
of possibilities too, which really make existence possible for the first
time . Heidegger´s question is the question about the meaning of
being, which perhaps only on the brink of death can be experienced.
Beyond is less a dance project, rather more a performance, in which the
dancing body is projected from its end, the outstanding death. The props
are reduced to one light position, the voices and noises of the dancers
and a grey video projection. In the intervals of no movement the dancers
read sections from “Being and time”. The kitsch wording of
Heidegger´s text experience a reactivation through the resonant
board of the bodies. That allows to experience“being-in-the-world”
as an event within the spheres of tension from spoken and bodily action
and interaction.