Annihilation

In this special festival edition, the show evolves into a fully live experience where both music and visuals are generated and controlled in real time, responding directly to the dancer’s movements. As the performer moves fluidly across the stage, his body becomes a powerful language, expressing a radical dystopian vision where relentless technological advancement threatens to drive us toward irreversible collapse. Through the seamless fusion of live human motion and dynamically evolving visuals, the performance crafts a haunting tableau — one where the boundary between progress and peril dissolves with chilling immediacy.

Drawing on 3D scans of natural environments from across the globe, the show immerses audiences in a deeply reactive digital landscape. These meticulously designed worlds serve both as environment and metaphor, inviting reflection on the fragile coexistence between human innovation and the natural world. Each gesture triggers cascading visual transformations, blurring the lines between physical and virtual realms, between performer and avatar.

This version also deepens the emotional resonance, illustrating the complex tension of our time: the collective awareness that we are heading toward ecological disaster, yet remaining largely paralyzed. It confronts audiences with the unsettling truth that climate change, while devastating for humanity, will not end life on Earth — nature will endure, even as we fade. At its core, this live-controlled performance becomes a visceral meditation on the delicate balance we must fight to maintain in an era obsessed with unchecked economic growth.