Volt[age] is an immersive and interactive contemporary ballet. Featuring six professional dancers from Oper Leipzig and one digital artist operating two 3D cameras and TouchDesigner in real time, the performance explores the fragile balance between humans and technology.

Technology meets human, code meets movement, modernity meets ballet.

Volt[age] breaks with traditional ballet conventions and uses state-of-the-art technology to create an interactive dance performance. Motion tracking, 3D sensors and digital projections are used to link the dancers’ movements with visual elements in real time. A symbiosis is created – sometimes as a harmonious connection, sometimes as a tense interplay between body and algorithm.

The ballet unfolds in five acts and tells of the profound interaction between human and machine. Technology awakens – first as a tool for humans. It learns, grows and challenges human control. A power struggle begins until humanity makes the decision to switch it off. But the question remains: can we live without it, or has it long since become a part of us?

Musically, the piece combines neo-classical orchestral composition with generative electronic music, creating an acoustic arc of suspense between what is human driven and what is machine generated.

In the unique setting of an immersive room, the ballet unfolds as a visually and acoustically intense experience that combines dance and technology in a new form, breaking new ground and bringing immersive formats to life in the ballet world, merging classical art with multimedia technologies, music and storytelling.

Nicolas Landrieux – Exhausted-Lab, Original concept, Creative Direction, Visuals design, Music Production, Live Performance
Kunstkraftwerk Leipzig, Production
Musikalische Komödie, Oper Leipzig, Dance Company
Mirko Mahr, Sara Brandão, Lolita Valau – Musikalische Komödie, Choreography
Ida Zenna, Photography
Paulo Cunha Martins, Videographer
Federico Lanzini, Videographer