Part of the performance Eternal Dawn, showing performers in robot-like costumes on stage.
© Festival Musica © Thaïs Breton
Part of the performance Eternal Dawn, showing performers in robot-like costumes on stage.
© Festival Musica © Thaïs Breton
klub katarakt 20
Music Theatre / Performance / Dance

Alexander Schubert / Decoder Ensemble

Eternal Dawn

Tickets:

24 Euros (conq. 14 Euros, [k]-Karte 12 Euros), combined ticket with Klub Katarakt available

Info

Recommended from 12 years. Possible triggers/sensory stimuli: strobe lighting, loud music, high frequencies as well as depictions of medical procedures.

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Thursday

1/15/26

7:30 PM

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Friday

1/16/26

7:30 PM

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Saturday

1/17/26

7:30 PM

ETERNAL DAWN is a laboratory for bio-modification – for the improved and altered bodies of the future in an unsupervised evolution. ETERNAL DAWN is a large-scale, installation-based music theatre project with which Hamburg-based composer and Decoder Ensemble co-founder Alexander Schubert continues his exploration of music, technology and transhumanism. As a Kampnagel co-production, ETERNAL DAWN is now celebrating its German premiere in Hamburg after its world premiere at the Musica Festival in Strasbourg.

Part of the performance Eternal Dawn, showing performers in robot-like costumes on stage.
© Festival Musica © Thaïs Breton
Three performers from the performance Eternal Dawn interact with each other in a kind of futuristic medical situation under dim lighting.
© Festival Musica © Thaïs Breton
A scene from the production Eternal Dawn, showing two performers interacting with each other via cables
© Festival Musica © Thaïs Breton
Full shot of the stage with several performers from the performance Eternal Dawn
© Festival Musica © Thaïs Breton

On stage, several performers wearing futuristic, robot-like costumes can be seen standing apart from one another in various positions. The stage is illuminated by red light from square lights suspended from the ceiling.


composition & direction Alexander Schubert Decoder Ensemble Leopold Hurt, Andrej Koroliov, Sonja Lena Schmid, Jonathan Shapiro performance Michael Mahar, Si-Ying Fung, Tasha Hess-Neustadt scenography Christian Wiehle choreography Colette Sadler character development, costumes Felina Levits assistance for costume, robotics & set Esther Heltschl technical direction Lars Kracht lighting design Diego Muhr production management Gregory (Grischa) Popov, Elisabeth Brunmayr robot arm choreography and production assistance Clara Brezinka production assistance Ludmilla Mercier musical development GRAME Lyon, Max Bruckert design of orthoses & robotic prostheses Neue Farben GbR (Paul Geisler, Fabian Nitschkowski, David Unland) support with 3D printing: Liqtra GmbH Hamburg, HoFaLab Hamburg Hamburg University of Technology, Institute for Mechatronics in Mechanics: Robotic Design and Programing Kyrillos Adeeb, Inderawes Khalil & Automation design and programing Dr. Mohammad Sadeghi

Funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation). Funded by the Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media). Kompositionsauftrag von Kampnagel, finanziert durch Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung.

Funded by: ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS, Kampnagel Hamburg, Musica, festival international des musiques d’aujourd’hui de Strasbourg, Le Maillon, Theater von Straßburg — Europäische Bühne, ligeti zentrum Hamburg, IRCAM Paris, GRAME Lyon, Claussen-Simon-Stiftung, Proberaumfonds des Dachverbands freie darstellende Künste Hamburg (DfdK)