Show: Dansehallerne (Copenhagen) 21-25 May 2026   ·   Partner: Simone Wierød (choreography)   ·   Contributors: M€RCY (music) , Magalí Camps (dance) , Roosa Törmä (dance) , Marie Nørgaard Nielsen (costumes) , Vertigo (production design) , JSH Projektrealisering (admin)   ·   Producer: Art & About   ·   Funding: The Danish Art Foundation, Augustinusfonden, Louis-Hansen Fonden, Knud Højgaards Fond, Beckett-Fonden   ·   Thanks: Daniel Høier Ørhgaard (3d print assistance)

Entering the screen, becoming the screen.

Dualities is a techno-poetic dance performance staging a meeting between body and simulation – ultimately the encounter with one’s digital self. Entering the screen, becoming the screen, performers move within an evolving ecology where physical and virtual behaviour continuously inform and reshape one another. The performance unfolds through recurring behavioral patterns that gradually shift as perception and understanding develop, only to reorganize into new states. Emerging from this ongoing transformation is a broader reflection on humanity’s capacity to adapt to the new realities produced by its technological creations. As digitization accelerates — not only throughout our environment, but at the core of our understanding of self — how does it feel when the qualitative difference between original and copy begins to dissolve?

A stereoscopic projection screen cuts the stage diagonally into two spatial domains, separating a physical and a virtual environment like a semi-transparent membrane. Through perspective illusion, stereoscopic imagery, realtime volumetric capture, and reprojection, luminous matter flows freely between these worlds, destabilizing the boundaries between stage, body, and screen. Perception shifts between layered realities, where depth, presence, and perspective are constantly renegotiated, and they momentarily converge into indistinguishable presence. Bodies split, echo, and reconfigure as technologies of automation and control are repurposed toward poetic and embodied forms of expression.

Developed through a close collaboration between choreographer Simone Wierød and visual artist Carl Emil Carlsen, with an original score by M€RCY, Dualities unfolds as visual music — a temporal choreography of bodies, sound, and simulated light.