ROBOT DREAMS

"Dreams and beasts are the two keys by which we are to find out the secrets of our nature. They are our test objects" (Ralph Waldo Emerson 1832)

Three dancers meet automatons, robots and animatronic body parts and encounter the artificial intelligence ToMoMi. A code and electricity make the machine-objects come alive, they are not human, not animal but also no longer mere objects. They have a presence, a magic. The self-created creatures become mirrors of ourselves and refer to our own vulnerability and mortality. While the players themselves slowly become cyborgs and objects through sensors and technology, the machines increasingly begin to develop human characteristics and feelings. Objects, programming and performers merge in the performance to create an extraordinary figure theatre in which the boundaries between human, machine and object seem to blur completely. A surreal machine dream unfolds between artificial intelligence/Uncanny Valley/Controlerboards and programming codes on the edge of the technical feasible.

CO-PRODUCTION WITH IMAGINALE 2018, FITZ! Stuttgart and Schaubude Berlin.

FUNDED BY City of Stuttgart,  Landesverband Freie Tanz- und Theaterschaffende Baden-Württemberg, Stiftung LBBW, FLAUSEN+ young artists in residence Theater Wrede and Custom Entertainment Solutions.

PREMIERE 20.01.2019 IMAGINALE 2018, FITZ! Stuttgart

DANCE/PERFORMANCE Luis Hergón, Daura Hernández García, Sawako Nunotani

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ToMoMi

DIRECTOR/DRAMATURGY Iris Meinhardt

ROBOTICS/SCENOGRAPHY Michael Krauss

MUSIC/SOUNDPROCESSING Oliver Frick

MEDIA CONTROL/PROGRAMMING Nadja Weber

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Tanja Höhne

VOICE Anna Illenberger (ToMoMi)