Incubatio
Stocos Institute

  Thursday 31 Oct
  19.30 h
  16 y 18€*
MUN Theatre
World premiere
*If you buy your tickets for any Museo en danza show before August 31, enjoy a 15% discount by applying the code ANTICIPA24. 

Dance, music, artificial intelligence (AI) models, virtual reality (VR) and motion capture techniques are combined in Incubatio.

Incubatio is an archaic practice of knowledge and healing, originated in Western Asia and spread throughout Greece and Rome. Parmenides or Pythagoras practiced it through their poetic chanting to reach states of consciousness in which emotion, feeling and the unconscious stream prevailed. Inspired by this practice, Incubatio is a scenic creation that recreates these visions or archetypal dreams with the support of an innovative technology specially created for this project.

The work is developed in an expanded reality (XR) stage format, in which the audience will be able to experience the music in surround sound and see the visual content experienced by one of the performers projected through virtual reality (VR).

This show is part of the European PREMIERE project financed with HORIZON funds.
 

ARTISTIC FILE
Conception and idea: Pablo Palacio and Muriel Romero
Choreography: Muriel Romero in collaboration with the dancers
Music: Pablo Palacio
Choreographic Assistance: Arnau Pérez
Dancers: Gaizca Morales and Arnau Pérez
Interactive visual simulation: Daniel Bisig
Lighting and scenic space: Maxi Gilbert
Costumes: Raquel Buj
Digital visualization: Daniel Bisig and Pedro Ribot
Motion capture: Pedro Ribot
Interactive sound: Pablo Palacio
Software and interactive technology: Daniel Bisig, Pablo Palacio, Fernando Fernández y Pedro Ribot
Light and laser programming: Pablo Palacio, Daniel Bisig and Pedro Ribot
Production: Stocos Institute
Supporters: EU-Horizon Programme, Teatro Museo de la Universidad de Navarra, Coliseu do Porto, Alhóndiga-Azkuna Zentroa, L'animal a l'Esquena, Festival Internacional de San Javier.

STOCOS INSTITUTE
Artificial intelligence, biology, mathematics and experimental psychology can dance. The expansion of body energy from dance to other sensory modalities, thanks to technology, is the field of research of choreographer and dancer Muriel Romero and composer Pablo Palacio.

Romero, who began his career with choreographers such as W.Forsythe or Jiří Kylián, joined Pablo Palacio to found the Stocos Institute. His work focuses on the realization of scenic works to which he transfers the results of his research on the body, sound and visual imagery in the scenic context, in the light of disciplines such as artificial intelligence, biology, mathematics or experimental psychology, all with the aim of evolving dance and creating a transfer of concepts between art and science accessible to both the general public, as well as dance enthusiasts, music, artists and scientists.

Stocos Institute is part of the PREMIERE consortium, a new European project focused on modernizing the performing arts within the prestigious and competitive HORIZON program, in which they are beneficiaries along with institutions such as the National Theater of Greece, Athena Research Centre, Universite Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne, ICK (Emio Greco's company), AHK (Amsterdam University of the Arts), among others.
 

MURIEL ROMERO
She is a dancer and choreographer. Her work focuses on the development of generative choreographic techniques, incorporating in her language abstractions taken from other disciplines. She has won several international awards such as Moscow International Ballet Competition, Prix de la Fondation de Paris-Prix de Laussane and 1st National Dance Prize of Barcelona.

She has been first soloist of prestigious companies such as Deutsche Oper Berlin, Dresden Semper Oper Ballet, Bayerisches Staatsballet Munchen, Gran Théatre de Genéve or Compañía Nacional de Danza. In his career he has worked with leading choreographers of our time as W. Forsythe, J.Kylian, Nacho Duato, Ohad Naharin or Saburo Teshigawara.

In the pedagogical field she has taught at the Prague Conservatory, in the Master of Contemporary Scenic Practice and Visual Culture of the UAH and currently teaches at the Conservatory of Dance in Madrid.
 

PABLO PALACIO
He is a composer. His work focuses on the perceptual connections between sound images that emerge in the course of a composition. He has been artist in residence in Spain, Switzerland, Germany or Lebanon, and his works have been performed in several countries from Europe and the United States to China, India, Brazil, and edited by Sub Rosa label in Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music #6. 

He is a very active composer in the performing arts and is currently collaborating with the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar designing interactive virtual instruments for people with disabilities.

He also participates in conferences, seminars and workshops at institutions such as the Franz Liszt Hochscule, Missouri State University (USA), Birmingham Conservatoire, Conservatorio Superior María de Ávila or Master of Contemporary Scenic Practice and Visual Culture of the UAH.
 

DANIEL BISIG
D. in Natural Sciences from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. He works as a researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the University of Zurich and at the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology of the Zurich University of the Arts.

Daniel Bisig develops an intense activity as an artist in disciplines such as computer animation, experimental video and software art, and has made numerous interactive works in the field of performing arts. In this sense, he has collaborated on numerous occasions with choreographers such as Jiri Kylian and Pablo Ventura.

With the sponsorship of Zurich Insurance