Belgian choreographer Ugo Dehaes has been exploring for several years the complex relationship between dance and technology. In Moving Skin, his new production for 2025, he embarks on a journey rooted in the breathtaking complexity of the human body.
In Moving Skin, Ugo takes his audience on a fascinating expedition: he makes skin dance, explores the mechanisms of our skeleton, rebuilds muscles, and attempts to inanimate materials to life. He tries to build the perfect dancer, which makes him
asks himself: what is a perfect body?
Moving Skin draws inspiration from the past and embraces the future. It is a tribute to the timeless fascination with the human body and a paean to the intrinsic beauty that hidden within it. At the same time, the performance takes us into an unexplored territory of technological progress, where human creativity and artificial intelligence become inseparable partners on stage.
"I have never seen anything like this before. Dehaes combines robotics, dance, satire and philosophy and has created a truly unsettling piece of theatre. Perhaps the real monsters are human beings, after all."
★★★★★ northwestend.com