Climb a mountain

Climb a Mountain is a solo that picks up on the choreographic development of Julia Riera's movement language, which she first developed in the group production ‘MIRA 11_shift’ (2023) in collaboration with artificial intelligence. Movement suggestions from an application developed specifically for MIRA became the starting point for the group's artistic process.

Climb a Mountain also draws on this digital foundation: the connections between human physicality and the algorithmic impulses of the app flow into the development of the solo. In the solo, the individual nuances of the dancer become visible – especially in the tension between body, AI and disorientation in the face of social and existential upheavals.

The starting point for the artistic research is a state of disorientation, inspired by a quote from Daniel Schreiber about an ‘uncanny version of one's own reality’ – an experience in which familiar environments appear strange and threatening. Like the character in the AI app, who loses individual body parts due to technical errors, thereby dissolving the body's spatial reference points, the dancer also repeatedly undergoes processes of disintegration and recomposition.

The experience of uncertainty is understood not as a deficit, but as a creative force and space for transformation. In collaboration with dancer Joy Kammin, a figure emerges that reacts to atmospheric conditions, embodies overload and asserts itself in constant reorientation.

Literary fragments by Daniel Schreiber and Paul Auster appear as acoustic impulses and combine language with movement to create a poetic, narrative choreography.

The result is a choreographic reflection that artistically explores the interactions between humans and technological innovation and uses movement as a medium to make inner and outer uncertainties physically tangible.