Dates:
Fri, July 4, 2025
Location: Festival der Zukunft, Munich
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June 18 and 19, 2025
Location: Silo 1, Tanzhaus Basel
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"Autonomous Avatar" explores the interface between humans and machines – dance, AI, and virtual realities.
Tobias Staab's piece is an immersive dance performance at the interface between humans and machines, where the boundaries between analog and virtual reality blur.
On a circular stage covered in flowers, two dancers take their first steps, fall and rise again, and struggle against the invisible forces of gravity. With the help of motion-capture technology, their movements come to life in the form of computer-generated avatars that move in luminous projections across the stage walls. The spectacle is accompanied by an AI-generated soundscape, with the distinctive voice of renowned actress Sandra Hüller floating through the space, drawing the audience deep into a hypnotic, almost surreal world.
Credits
Direction, Text, Concept: Tobias Staab
Choreography: The choreography was developed in close collaboration between Tobias Staab and the dancers Dasniya Sommer and Corey Scott-Gilbert.
Performers: Corey Scott-Gilbert & Dasniya Sommer
Voice: Sandra Hüller
3D Design: Luis August Krawen
Music: Beni Brachtel
Set Design & Concept: Nadja Sofie Eller
Costume Design: Annika Lu Hermann
Motion Capture: Warja Rybakova
Lighting Design: Matthias Singer
Fulldome Expert: Tobias Wiethoff
Supported by: DOCKdigitalLab, Planetarium Bochum
Funded by: Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media / NEUSTART KULTUR, German Dance Federation / tanz:digital
The motion caption suits were funded as part of a DOCK 11 project grant by tanz:digital, a funding program of the German Dance Federation within the framework of NEUSTART KULTUR, and are now also available for this project.