TOTENTANZ.
MORGEN IST DIE FRAGE

In Totentanz we begin by engaging the audience in a kind of séance, with bodies that seem to speak to us from the last threshold of the world, and from there begins a journey that conflates the eternal dilemma that separates life from death. Coming to terms with death is a labyrinthine and dark path. Our imagination, always clumsy and endless, always tries to get ahead in the race for the meaning of life. And it loses its way. For life is impatient, but death knows how to wait. (Marcos Morau- La Veronal)
(Marcos Morau- La Veronal)

 Totentanz, also known as Danse macabre or Dance of Death, was already in the Middle Ages a way to exorcise the fear of death in a carnival of desperate vitality. Marcos Morau, one of the most visionary artists on the contemporary scene, and his dance company La Veronal, among the most acclaimed on the international scene, revisit this ritual through a performance that gives us back a poetically pertinent image of death and the justice it entails: The fatal hour comes, infallibly, for each of us. Revisiting the dance of death in the 21st century, in the turbulence of a world thrown into terminal chaos by a thousand social, digital and spiritual revolutions, is a deliberate anachronism, almost a meditation. Morau's Totentanz is an invitation to celebrate the fragility of life and meditate on its loss of value. The current disregard for the values of life is directly proportional to the generalized inability to interpret, dance to, officiate at death as mystery. Losing consciousness, shaking the body, losing oneself in the darkness of the senses and succumbing to the trance of music and dance brings us to catharsis, and from that state even the bitter bite of nothingness enters more easily. More than five centuries later, the dance of death returns to make us wonder where we are going, who we are, and what this place we inhabit means before death takes us by the hand to dance with it.

Duration 55 minutes