Hugo Cabral Mendes

Live performance

'This is only about dance, or, Cartas de um bailarino para a nuvem' is a multidisciplinary performance that explores the intersection of dance, video, and artificial intelligence. The work reflects the attempt to immortalize the ephemeral.
 

We live in an era where attention is fragmented, and validation is reduced to a click. Performing arts, by their fleeting nature, seem confined to the present moment, where the audience's gaze intersects in a specific space and time.
 

Through collaboration with artificial intelligence, the performance delves into new possibilities for dance, preserving the architecture of the void that dance inhabits and introducing innovative tools for artistic expression. It seeks to reconcile and challenge the physical and digital realms, tradition and innovation, the fleeting and the eternal.