Incubatio
Stocos Institute

  Thursday, October 31
  19.30 h
  €16 and €18*
MUN Theater
World premiere
*If you purchase your tickets for any Museo en danza show before August 31, you will enjoy a 15% discount by applying the code ANTICIPA24. 

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

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

The work is presented in an expanded reality (XR) stage format, in which the audience can experience the music in surround sound and see the visual content experienced by one of the performers through virtual reality (VR) projected onto a screen.

This show is part of the European PREMIERE project, funded by HORIZON.
 

ARTISTIC CREDITS
Concept 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 stage design: Maxi Gilbert
Costumes: Raquel Buj
Digital visualization: Daniel Bisig and Pedro Ribot
Motion capture: Pedro Ribot
Interactive sound design: Pablo Palacio
Software and interactive technology: Daniel Bisig, Pablo Palacio, Fernando Fernández, and Pedro Ribot
Light and laser programming: Pablo Palacio, Daniel Bisig, and Pedro Ribot
Production: Instituto Stocos
Support: 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 be danced. The expansion of the physical energy of 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 and Jiří Kylián, joined Pablo Palacio to found the Stocos Institute. His work focuses on stage productions that reflect the results of his research on the body, sound, and visual imagery in the context of performance, in light of disciplines such as artificial intelligence, biology, mathematics, and experimental psychology, all with the aim of advancing dance and creating a transfer of concepts between art and science that is accessible to the general public as well as dance and music enthusiasts, artists, and scientists.

Instituto Stocos is part of the PREMIERE consortium, a new European project focused on modernizing the performing arts within the prestigious and competitive HORIZON program, and in which they are beneficiaries alongside institutions such as the National Theater of Greece, Athena Research Center, 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 abstractions taken from other disciplines into her language. She has won several international awards, such as the Moscow International Ballet Competition, the Prix de la Fondation de Paris-Prix de Laussane, and the 1st National Dance Award of Barcelona.

She has been principal dancer with prestigious companies including Deutsche Oper Berlin, Dresden Semper Oper Ballet, Bayerisches Staatsballet Munchen, Gran Théatre de Genéve, and Compañía Nacional de Danza. Throughout her career, she has worked with leading choreographers of our time such as W. Forsythe, J. Kylian, Nacho Duato, Ohad Naharin, and Saburo Teshigawara.

In the field of education, she has taught at the Prague Conservatory, in the Master's Degree in Contemporary Performing Arts and Visual Culture at the UAH, and is currently a professor at the Madrid Dance Conservatory.
 

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 an artist in residence in Spain, Switzerland, Germany, and Lebanon, and his works have been performed in various countries from Europe and the United States to China, India, and Brazil, and released by the Sub Rosa label in Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music #6. 

He is a very active composer in the performing arts and currently collaborates 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 Hochschule, Missouri State University (USA), Birmingham Conservatoire, María de Ávila Conservatory, and the Master's Degree in Contemporary Performing Arts and Visual Culture at the University of Huelva.
 

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

Daniel Bisig is intensely active as an artist in disciplines such as computer animation, experimental video, and software art, and has created numerous interactive works in the field of performing arts. In this regard, he has collaborated on numerous occasions with choreographers such as Jiri Kylian and Pablo Ventura.

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