Instituto Stocos and Neopercusión return to MUN with a show in which dance, music and light are related through artificial intelligence.

Dance and music will take the stage of the Museo Universidad de Navarra this Friday, at 7:30 p.m., with The hidden resonances of the moving bodies IIby Instituto Stocos together with the Neopercusión group, percussion soloists of the Orquesta Nacional de España. The proposal is the second part of a series of works that confront on stage dancers with classical-contemporary musicians with the aim of exploring the links found in the creation of both disciplines. This relationship is exploited thanks to a specific technology that combines motion capture techniques with artificial intelligence models.

The choreography of the piece is by Muriel Romero, who has worked with prominent choreographers of our time such as William Forsythe, Jiří Kylián, Nacho Duato or Saburo Teshigawara and returns to the Museum after her stay at the Spanish Academy in Rome, where she has developed a project that relates dance with Bernini's sculpture. In the piece, the artist is joined by instrumentalists Juanjo Guillem and Rafa Gálvez and dancers Muriel Romero, Alicia Narejos and Arnau Pérez.

Pablo Palacio, co-founder of Instituto Stocos with Romero and musical composer of the piece, explains that both dance and music "are based on movement. It is hypnotic to see a musician playing his instrument, it looks like a sophisticated choreography. That movement, however, translates into music, into "a dance of particles (...) that reaches our ears in the form of a sound wave". In the show, this linkage is approached as if it were "a polyphony in which dance, music, technology and light evolve autonomously, although with certain interdependencies, so that at times it is possible to see the music and hear the dance".

NEW CREATIVE POSSIBILITIES

Artificial intelligence has been key in this proposal, a tool that, in the composer's words, "can be an interesting area to help us artists reflect on our work". A reflection that serves as a guide for the creation of possibilities and new scenarios.

Regarding the work with Neopercusión, he values that the group "has been moving for some time between the limits of contemporary creation and new scenic languages, pushing current music to new formats and languages. Their enormous virtuosity, without limits, associated with their vocation to explore the unknown, makes this collaboration a wonderful experience that I hope will be reflected in the work we present at the Museum".

To know the keys of this work, on Wednesday 20 will be held a conference of the cycle Thinking in Dance, coordinated by Ibis Albizu. At the meeting Sound Bodies: on artificial intelligence and movementwhich will take place in Room 2 of the Museum, the public will be able to talk with Pablo Palacio and Muriel Romero, from Stocos. Free admission with prior withdrawal of invitation until full capacity is reached.