In Votary AR created by choreographer Gustavo Gomes is a collaboration between the artist, the expert of spatial design Pavel Cherniak, videographer Haris Ajrulahi, sound artist Civic Grace. In this work the audience can see a hybrid of different churches and dancers in iconic figures through iPads provided by the house. While films created by Gustavo Gomes and Haris Ajlurahi shows translations of mythological texts hummed as Hexadecimals in the temple. A series of rituals of washing heads and dancing are also based on binary coding translations of sacred texts. In the room the audience can also see an altar made of handmade icons in the shape of iPhones and shown as it for selling. The audience is invited to navigate through the space with the iPads while being able to watch the films, the sculptures and hearing the sound of the prayers. So they create a tableau vivant of walking figures holding cameras and seeing a reality that is only available through this device. As an introduction this already explains clearly the premises of the show: It is a human ritual filtered through technology, where people and subjective fantasies entrench as one thing in order to create a dystopian form of reality. The set designed by Cherniak is a result of a work in residency that the artists had in Tübigen in 2021and several trips that Cherniak did to Russia where he 3D-scanned more than 10 churches in small villages. With these templates he created a hybrid of train stations, city landscapes and sacred spaces. The films made by Gomes and Haris are interpretation of the dystopian future where the things made by humans worship the things that are unseen to us. Premiered at Moovy Festival Cologne on the 22nd of April 2022.

Direction, concept and choreography in collaboration with the team Pablo Sansalvador (New Zealand) @PabloSansalvador www.pablosansalvador.com Dancers Einav Kringel (Israel) @einavkringel Giordan Cruz (USA) @selma_crack Music Ashley Wright (Australia) @civic_grace www.ashleyalexandra.net Dramaturgical and choreographic assistance Mar Rodriguez (Spain) @mar_rvalverde Camera Andreas Usenbenz (Germany) @andreas_usenbenz www.studiosechzehn.com Technical installation Alexander Rehm (Germany) www.audio-express.de "The ten-minute installation asks viewers to look up and reflect on the blind encounters and constant shifting and negotiation of life that take place after dark. We are all part of something larger, yet only a small speck in time and space." - Pablo Sansalvador DUSK is supported in the program Kultursommer 2021 by the Beauftrage der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (BKM) with funds from NEUSTART KULTUR.

Directed by Gustavo Gomes Sound by Civic Grace Votary: a devoted follower, a term for a person who vows total devotion to an ideology. Taking the premisses of repetition, trance and craftsmanship as deeply rooted in the development of contemporary technology. Votary - The First Temple, explore the clear commonalities between ritual practices and the ways coding infuses our daily lives. Establishing analogies between technology and the human corporealities, this 20 minutes, 4 channel installation dissects the primal human tendency of creating external representations of itself as divinities. Choreographed as a ritual, the four films showcase two dancers performing choreographic scored movements based on the translation of biblical texts into binary codings. The body mechanics counterpoints visuals of robots learning animal-like motions and mannerisms. Liturgical imagery of washing heads and molding icons share space with holy texts translated into Hexadecimals as voiceovers. Written, directed and choreographed by Gustavo Gomes Filmed by Gustavo Gomes and Haris Ajlurahi Performed by Anna Hamms Süheyla and Gustavo Gomes Edited by Gustavo Gomes Music by CIVIC GRACE Filmed at KOLUMBA, Langen Foundation and Quartier am Hafen Cologne 2022 Gustavo Gomes & Co.

LBM – Living Building Materials Trailer Choreography: Pablo Sansalvador pablosansalvador.com @pablosansalvador LBM - Living building materials Duration: 14 minutes Music: LBM - original composition by Ashley Wright / CIVIC GRACE "Living building materials" is based on nature inspired design and the concept that living building materials will be the driving force in the future as man continues to strive higher and push the limits of physical forms. The work is based on biology, specifically corals and the way they self-repair, self-replicate and self-build. There is no better designer than nature. How will man build in harmony with nature in the future, rather than against it? Trailer filmed and edited by @pippa_samaya www.pippasamaya.com ChoreoLab 2021 is inspired by the human striving for higher things - hence the title "Higher!". As is well known, Ulm’s Cathedral has the highest church tower in the world at 161.53 meters. One day in the not-too-distant future, it will lose this world record, which it has held since 1890. With the completion of the Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona, there will then be a new tallest church tower at 170 meters. ChoreoLab 2021 has commissioned two choreographers from Baden-Württemberg and two from Barcelona to investigate, reflect and question, what actually drives people to build ever "higher"? Is it about power, prestige, status, identity or is it the human desire to unite and believe in something greater than ourselves? This year's "ChoreoLab - Made in Ulm" also marks the beginning of a cultural exchange between the cities of Ulm and Barcelona. As part of this exchange, the "ChoreoLab" evening "Higher!” was performed in Barcelona for at the Sant Andreu Theatre (SAT!) on September 18, 2021.  ChoreoLab "HIGHER!" Choreographers: Paloma Muñoz / @siberia_palomamunoz Pablo Sansalvador / @pablosansalvador Thomas Noone / @thomas_noone_dance Smadar Goshen / @smadar_goshen Choreographic Assistant: @mar_rvalverde Dancers: Tanit Cobas / @tanitcobas_____ Anna Raiola / @annaraiolaclavery Carlos Roncero / @roncero.carlos Adrian Ros / @adrsno ChoreoLab – Made in Ulm commissions #international #dance #makers to create and #premier a #newwork in 35 hours. #ChoreoLab nurtures and cultivates international dance makers and artists to be create and perform works inspired by #Ulm. The residency initiates and cultivates an open conversation between dance makers, artists, dance lovers and the public. This allows more understanding and insight of dance, allowing us to strengthen the social fabric through art and international cultural exchange. ⁠ 'ChoreoLab - Made in Ulm’ is created by @movingrhizomes and made possible thanks to the collaboration and support from @tanzlabor.ulm @roxy.ulm⁠, @kultur.in.ulm, Landesverband Freie Tanz- und Theaterschaffende Baden-Württemberg eV. and #TakeAction, #neustartkultur #choreolab #madeinulm #choreography #choreolabmadeinulm #kulturinulm #stadtulm #roxyulm #roxylabor #tanz #dance #deutschebühne #premier #art #dance #ballet #theater #tanzlaborulm #tanzlabor #kulturinulm #dance #performance #freieszene #diehlundritter #neustartkultur #reconnect #tanzpakt

Directed by Joel Donald Small Sound by Civic Grace

Directed and choreographed by Gustavo Gomes Performed by Anna Süheyla Harms and Gustavo Gomes Music by Civic Grace Costumes by Julia Misiorny Filmed at the Langen Foundation and KOLUMBA Supported by NRW Kunst Stipendium Special thank you to Mara Sporn Gustavo Gomes & Co. 2021