Jacopo Godani (DE/IT), Quasimondo (DE) & Dancers of the Staatstheaters am Gärtnerplatz

World premiere ss part of SYNAESTHETIX #2

22.00 h
ZIRKA

Choreography: Jacopo Godani

AI live visuals: Quasimondo

Performance: Dancers of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz

In a new creation for dancers from the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, former artistic director of the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company Jacopo Godani and Munich-based AI artist Quasimondo explore movement and technological feedback processes. Artificial intelligence interprets choreographic clusters via real-time video recording and generates new moving images from them. The dancers respond to the projected video with improvised choreographic particles, which are in turn recorded by the AI and fed into the communication system between machine and human. This creates a fascinating, non-verbal and experimental interaction between the neural network of the AI model and the human bodies on stage.

Born in La Spezia, Italy, choreographer Jacopo Godani has choreographed for some of the world's leading ballet companies, including the Royal Ballet Covent Garden, the Bavarian State Ballet, the Compañía Nacional de Danza, the Nederlands Dans Theater, the Royal Ballet of Flanders, the Ballet de l'Opéra national du Rhin, Het Nationale Ballet, the Alterballetto, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet and many more. From 1991 to 2000, he was one of the leading soloists at William Forsythe's Ballet Frankfurt, whose artistic direction he took over from 2015 to 2023. Jacopo Godani first collaborated with the ballet company of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in 2015. He is contributing a choreography to the triple bill “Rock to Heaven”, which will premiere in April 2026.

Mario Klingemann, alias Quasimondo, is an artist who works with algorithms and data. He explores the possibilities of machine learning and artificial intelligence to understand how creativity, culture and their perception work. His areas of interest include deep learning, generative and evolutionary art, glitch art, data visualisation and robot installations. Klingemann's work has been shown at the Ars Electronica Festival, Photographers Gallery London, Centre Pompidou Paris, the Met and MoMA New York, among others, and he is a frequent speaker at international art, design and media conferences.