Fidy Twuny (19:30) by Keith Alexander
Fidy Twuny is an Afro-futurist piece that imagines human life in the ocean’s depths after the melting of the ice caps in 2050. In this underwater future, we follow the story of Fidy as he descends into the sea on a rite of passage. During his journey into the abyss, he encounters The Four—ancestral spirits of wisdom and light—who reveal a vision that sets him on a path of bioluminescent transformation. This story is both an exploration of what emerges when we attune ourselves to the rhythms of nature and a reminder of nature’s power to transform and guide us.
Metanoia (19:55) by Oliver Walton (a darker sky)
Through a single performer, Metanoia explores the story of two characters - a boy and his grandmother surviving at a fracture point of reality. Hiding from the brutality surrounding their sanctuary, they exist in the darkness, imagining separate fantasies for the broken world outside. But as apocalypse pierces the shadows, fantasy mutates reality, and an unstoppable and ruinous power emanates from the boy.
Metanoia is an interactive hybrid reality performance that merges live motion with virtual embodiment, mutating the appearance of both dancers and the audience into new and ever-evolving forms through generative AI. Occupying a third space where the digital and physical converge, the piece explores the fluid interplay of control, memory, identity, and transformation.
Born in Latent Space (20:05) by Marlon Barrios
Born in Latent Space is a solo lecture-performance that explores the speculative presence of the self through machine learning generative AI, voice, software and real-time media. The piece unfolds as a poetic encounter between the performer and a laptop weaving together storytelling, projection, and algorithmic improvisation. It invites audiences into a space where memory, code, and identity dissolve into shifting patterns and nested stories—part invocation, part transmission, part glitch.
Full details and documentation: https://marlonbarrios.github.io/duets-in-latent-space/
Inter:Fase (19:30) by Uku'Pacha
INTER:FASE is a dance and technology piece that explores the interconnection between the human body and virtual spaces. Using a motion capture suit, a dancer brings a photorealistic avatar to life in real time, questioning the boundaries between the physical and the digital. The work investigates new movement logics in virtual space, reimagining the body through the lens of artificial intelligence and programming.
Terms and Conditions (19:55) by Pierre Englehard
Terms and Conditions is a live performance exploring the fractured boundaries between the physical body and its digital extensions. Drawing from choreography, expanded cinema, and performance art, the piece examines how identity is constructed and distorted through systems of surveillance and data capture.
A solo performer inhabits a transforming environment: part bedroom, part workspace, part digital stage. Surrounding them, three large-scale screens act as both architecture and interface, projecting a multi-channel live video feed filmed by onstage camera operators. These mediated images are simultaneously streamed online, creating parallel layers of presence: lived, performed, and broadcast.
As the performer moves through everyday interactions, scrolling, typing, and logging in, a digital doppelgänger begins to take shape on the screens. Initially indistinct, it gradually becomes more defined, revealing a self-built entirely from data. What begins as a reflection becomes something autonomous, unpredictable, something that no longer belongs to the performer.
Terms and Conditions reflects on the aesthetics of surveillance, the abstraction of the self, and the emotional residue of digital life. It asks: In a world of constant connectivity, what part of us remains off-screen?
Resonant Silence (20:05) by Zhou Zhou
Resonant Silence is an immersive performance exploring the interplay between sound and movement, where bodily gestures and sonic expressions merge in a purely embodied interaction. Evolving from Talk, this work moves beyond verbal communication, delving into the resonance of silence—where movement generates sound, and sound, in turn, shapes movement.
This piece investigates embodied sound as a material presence rather than a separate element, questioning how silence can be felt, how sonic textures emerge through the body, and how movement and sound negotiate space in real time. Through improvisation and live interaction, performers engage with sound as a tactile and fluid medium, shaping an evolving auditory and kinetic landscape.
Bridging contemporary dance, interactive sound design, and AI-driven improvisation, Resonant Silence invites audiences into a space where silence is not emptiness but a field of potential—where every motion resonates with unseen frequencies, and every pause holds sonic tension.