M.oving O.thers

M.O. is a choreographic performance exploring the interplay between bodies, machines, and intelligence. Three performers – Maia Joseph, Angela Bettoni, and Julek Kreutzer – engage with a live prompter (Giovanni Sabelli Fioretti) and an AI-driven visual system that responds in real time to movement, language, and audience input.

Rather than treating artificial intelligence as an abstract computational entity, M.O. brings its embodied dimensions to the stage: its material presence, its rhythms, its malleable ways of thinking. In the friction between algorithmic abstraction and the three very different bodies of the performers, a poetic-physical dialogue emerges—a field of tension that explores, questions, and transforms.

The audience is invited to actively shape the performance: via their smartphones, spectators can submit prompts that feed the system and influence the unfolding of the piece. Here, AI does not appear as a tool or adversary, but as a collaborator—a relational system that learns, remembers, and evolves with the performers.

Structured in two sections, M.O. unfolds as a progressive entanglement of human movement and machine response. In the second part, the focus shifts: light, sound, and algorithmic systems gradually take over the stage. Presence transforms—from embodied dance into an autonomous, machinic choreography composed of resonance, impulse, and atmospheric feedback. An intelligence emerges that is no longer bound to the human body, but continues as a vibrating tension in space.

By combining dance, live performance, audience interaction, machine learning, and speculative dramaturgy, M.O. invites audiences to witness—and participate in—how movement can both challenge and reimagine the intelligence of machines. It’s not about taming the monster—but about dancing with it.

Artistic direction and choreography: Giovanni Sabelli Fioretti
Dance: Angela Bettoni, Maia Joseph, Julek Kreutzer
Physical Dramaturgy: Julek Kreutzer
Dramaturgical accompaniment: Giuseppe Esposito
Music and sound: Davide Degano                                                                                                                                     Light Design: Sebastián Solórzano
Creative Coding: Martyna Chojnacka
Process accompaniment by Digital Koproduktionslabor

Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion – Berlin