Score is a contemporary dance performance that investigates the relationship between human body and technology. Electric Muscle Stimulation (EMS) sends electrical impulses to involuntarily activate the performers’ muscles. Using EMS, choreographer Isaiah creates a movement language shaped by computational code rather than conscious intent.
This work blurs the lines between biology and machine, asking urgent ethical questions about the use of emerging technologies in both artistic and everyday contexts. As tools once designed to improve life begin to outperform and even replace the human body, Score critically examines what is lost in terms of agency, identity, and cognitive autonomy.
In the piece GOATS by French/Luxembourgian duo Sarah Baltzinger + Isaiah Wilson, the performers are immersed in a hallucinatory world, in between pastoral satire and bestiary dream. GOATS unfolds in an absurd, Kafkaesque universe, where Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy of «becoming-animal» serves as a lens to explore contemporary alienation. On stage, the performers embody hybrid beings—half-human, half-goat—reflecting a world in which they can no longer find their place. Their only escape lies in metamorphosis, a shift toward animality that unveils humanity’s desperate search for relief from the relentless cruelty of its surroundings.
This journey takes place within a scenography that blurs the line between reality and fantasy. A surreal landscape of grass dominates the stage, evoking a pastoral kingdom both idyllic and oppressive. It is a space suspended between the sacred and the playful, where the rules of ritual and the discipline of games intersect. Viewers are left to wonder: is this a prison, a human zoo, a stadium, or a fantastical world ? This ambiguity underscores the disciplinary nature of the space, which confines the performers within its surreal boundaries while shaping their identities and actions.
