DANCÆ X Chlär is a new body of choreographic work that explores the relationship between body, sound, and machine intelligence, presented over six evenings at Berlin’s Haus der Visionäre. The performances highlight the ways in which rhythm shapes perception and societal progression while underscoring contemporary debates around automation, co-creation, autonomy, and resistance. DANCÆ’s collaboration with electronic music artist Chlär, places sound at the center of the choreographic experience. Rather than treating music as accompaniment, the performance explores how movement can emerge through sound and how they influence one another in real time. As Chlär plays a live set, the dancers and the 360° spatial sound installation by d&b audiotechnik become extensions of his composition. For the first act, choreographer Elizaveta Poliakova will present her solo work The Flag, a dance that both structures and responds to the movement of a large-scale fabric installation by visual artist Felix Kiessling. The piece explores the search for balance, spatial orientation, and stability within the context of instability; a meditation on holding presence, integrity, and values as the world shifts. For the second act, a new ballet set to electronic music by Ballet Sur_real & Chlär, explores how consciousness transforms through data and algorithms, presenting AI not as dystopian or utopian but as a mirror of collective thought. It contrasts the human instinct for rhythm and movement with algorithmic code, repetition, and pattern, questioning autonomy in an age where human cognition is increasingly outsourced, streamlined, and optimised. The work is choreographed by Soraya Schulthess, and Renato De Leon, who together co-direct Ballet Sur_real, the official dance ensemble of DANCÆ. Their works are performed to electronic music and accompanied by site-specific light and spatial design, drawing audiences into multi-sensory environments where dance, installation, and sound create a unique performance experience. An accompanying exhibition featuring BBA Gallery along with several contributing artists extends the performance beyond the stage and enables an interdisciplinary engagement with the theme (more info will follow).