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Still Moving
::Project by Liis Vares and Taavet Jansen:: Still Moving invites you into a space where instinctive physicality meets linguistic thinking, using mixed reality (MR). The project, part of the larger Held in Human series, explores the meaning of presence and “being in a body” in a contemporary world where technology significantly extends and mediates human experience. Equipped with…
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NINO
::Project by Bruno Martelli and Ruth Gibson:: Shadows play on weathered textures, landscapes both natural and surreal, light dances on surfaces virtual and visceral. Avatars breathe, embodying the earth, sky, and the storm within, drifting between worlds, animated by the unseen currents of a dancer’s breath, captured in the pulse of motion. Here, the audience…
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The Field / Gaitless
::Project by Marko Milić and Uroš Krčadinac:: How could we be moved with all this data and technology around? Could science emphasize the awareness of our physicality, could it be translated into a dance language or choreographies and could it be systematized as a participatory installation? We are about to find out. The Field /…
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Baby
::Project by Viktor Szeri and Tamás Páll:: Baby is a research-based multimedia performance project that integrates choreography with multi-modal AI technologies to explore the functioning of art collectives as a form of care-work and an alternative to the nuclear family model. The project’s point of departure is Hollow, a multidisciplinary group Viktor Szeri and Tamás…
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This Is Unreal
::Project by Pierre Godard and Liz Santoro:: “This Is Unreal” explores the intersection of dance, theater, and contemporary technologies like artificial intelligence, clones, and deepfakes. Through text and movement, Liz Santoro inhabits a world where the lines between human and machine, real and virtual, blur. The performance delves into the unsettling implications of AI on…
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For Patricia
::Project by Sarah Fdili Alaoui and John Sullivan:: “For Patricia” is a dance piece where the choreographic and musical composition is generated in real-time with AI and through audience interaction. The piece is an ode to postmodernism in Dance. “For Patricia”, or for Trisha, is in honor of one of the inventors of postmodernism Trisha…
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Yugen
::Project by Christine Bonansea Saulut and Chris Ziegler:: “Yugen” (Jap. “mystery and depth”) is a pas de deux dance performance of the dancer Christine Bonansea with several representations of herself in a feedback loop. Her body transforms from human to abstract figurines to superhuman VR avatar. The avatar is bouncing back onto the dancer’s body,…
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Collective Cadence
::Project by Simona Deaconescu and Grigore Burloiu:: “Collective Cadence” investigates the complex dynamics between mass dances, individual expression, and control systems. The project emphasizes rhythm’s crucial role in initiating, disseminating, and encapsulating collective desires and fears. Intertwining elements of history, anthropology, ethnomusicology, and AI co-creation, it scrutinizes how performing rhythm functions as a societal response…
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Temporal Spaces
::Project by Célia Bétourné and Max Levy:: Step into an immersive dance world with Max Levy and Celia Bétourné’s Temporal Spaces, a multimedia installation that empowers the audience to become the dancer, choreographer, and viewer of their own iterative choreographic work. The project emphasizes the interplay between the seen and the unseen, creating unique zones…
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SFDCANBAC++
Stage for Digital, Contagious, and Networked Bodies and Code++ (SFDCANBAC++) ::Project by Jorge Guevara and Naoto Hieda:: Bodies, colorful objects, live-codes and glitter pixels continuously change their constellations on the stage – superimposing and subtracting, grouping and ungrouping – while the abundance of “actors” never arrives to a specific form. The performance is a “petri…
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Duophonic Transience: A Study on Entrainment, Biorhythms and Neural Synthesis
::Project by William Primett:: Entrainment specifies a temporal alignment between two or more oscillations that are autonomous yet connected in phase. A phenomenon which provides a rich theoretical understanding of human movement and the embodiment of rhythm induced by external stimuli. The Duophonic Transience project draws parallels between this concept of embodied entrainment and ongoing…