BORDERLESS BODY

Borderless Body, developed over four years under the artistic direction of Michal Rynia and Nastja Bremec Rynia with a permanent international dance ensemble, brought to life several full-length productions, shorter choreographies, and dance films (To the Moon and Back, Distance, Border-Line, F-Lights, Prometheus, A-Line, Drop).

During the candidacy for the European Capital of Culture, we conceived this project as one of the program’s highlights — a platform for questioning humanity’s future in the face of climate change and, above all, our responses to the challenges the future will bring. The project seeks to explore the limits of the human body and connect dance with artificial intelligence and robotics, while raising questions about the future relationship between the biological and the technological.

What happens when the human body can be “optimized” through technology?

What will a “body” even be in the future, and will the mind still need a biological body to function?

Can artificial intelligence move a body through algorithms?

The “future” reached us sooner than we had expected. Today, artificial intelligence is our constant companion. Cyborgs are becoming a reality. Robotic arms and legs can be moved by the power of the human brain. And with the advancement of medical technology, we are becoming increasingly hybrid beings.

How should we respond to this? Will we use technology to serve us, or will we succumb to the principle of self-optimization — imposed on anyone who is “not perfect”? These are frightening yet inevitable questions for the future of humanity. But within them lie hope and new solutions for an aging society.

In the exciting phase of exploring this urgent topic within the *Boundless Body* process — which concludes with a performance of the same name — we examine these questions through the dancer’s “flawless” body, caught in limitations and placed in various contexts.

What intrigued us most was the human confrontation with the limits of their body, mind, and planet — and the possibilities of surpassing them. Historically, humans have turned to religion and science for this — today, to artificial intelligence and robotics.

Humanity senses that beyond its limitations lies an immense potential, something it constantly longs for. It reaches toward boundlessness, seeks the true meaning of its existence, and explores its vastness and depth. The fear of death and meaninglessness drives us to strive every day to be better than the day before — to create, explore, conquer, and discover new worlds both outside and within ourselves.

Will we succeed in finding what we seek?

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