Between Dance and Artificial Intelligence: Wayne McGregor explores the depths of Deepstaria

to a few days after its world premiere at the Festival Montpellier Danse, from July 12 to 14 (at 21:30, at 19:30, at 15:30) the Italian premiere of Deepstaria, Wayne McGregor's new creation. Flanked from an exceptional creative team including Oscar-winning sound designer Nicolas Becker, music producer LEXX co-inventor of Bronze AI, lighting designer Theresa Baumgartner and faithful dramaturg Uzma Hameed, McGregor creates a dance performance that propels the audience into the sphere of the possible, into technological innovation, questioning the link between dance and Artificial Intelligence. Company Wayne McGregor's dancers move in a scene created with Vantablack Vision®, which allows for unfathomable darkness. The same darkness that envelops Deepstaria, a mysterious species of jellyfish that inhabits the deep.

McGregor-an award-winning British choreographer, director of the Dance section of the Venice Biennale and "resident choreographer" of the Royal Ballet in London-creates a sensory and meditative experience that reflects on man's relationship to emptiness and mortality. He comments, "From the depths of the sea to the farthest reaches of space, these dark and mysterious zones ignite our imagination and our desire to explore the world to its boundaries." Artificial Intelligence plays a role from starring on stage with the bodies of the company's nine dancers to emerge in a space-time that smacks of a black hole. The sound system on which these bodies develop and move depends from on innovative technological experimentation with AI: Nicolas Becker's music is processed from Bronze AI, the composition and arrangement platform devised by music producer LEXX, which can continuously recompose and perform music in real time.

Another key to understanding the performance is in the NASA quote Deep sea and deep space are not as different as you think. "The quote sends back many associations in my mind," the choreographer continues. "Adventure, courage, vision. It propels us into the unknown, technological innovation, human ingenuity, that is, into the sphere of the Possible. Traveling beyond ourselves, we seek knowledge to illuminate and develop our human condition. At the same time, these spaces of infinite blackness, similar to the womb, are strangely familiar. It is as if they awaken forgotten connections deep within ourselves, echoes perhaps of unconscious states of being of yesteryear -- or perhaps of tomorrow? Just think of the Voyager 1 spacecraft from years old located to billion kilometers from Earth that, after a period of signal interruption, has begun to transmitting data back to NASA. It is orbiting in interstellar space from more than 40 years.... Incredible, indeed, impressive."

The second part of the show, structured as a diptych, is scheduled for summer 2025 to Hong Kong.