CyberWill 2.0

This performance blends Shakespearean texts with dance improvisation and new technologies. It is one of the first productions openly exploring ChatGPT as actor, collaborator, and theme. The piece delves into human relationships and solitude, juxtaposing two realities: the physical motion of dancers and the intangible word generator. The audience chooses which narrative to follow or combine. Themes include AI fear, Shakespeare (un)familiarity, human ineptitude, catastrophism, information overload, and cultural accumulation. Inspired by Cymbeline, it mirrors Shakespeare’s weaving of cultural threads and imagination. The title alludes to William and ‘will’ as desire. We remix pop culture and AI motifs (Matrix, Terminator), highlighting tragicomic blends of truth, fiction, and memes. Content generation is central, showing how text or gestures can be fleeting or deeply meaningful. We do not impose AI interpretations but present its strengths and flaws, leaving judgment to the audience. Finally, it’s also a comedy, because for what reason so grave ?

Zuzanna Kasprzyk - I am a graduate of the M.M. Shevchenko Private Ballet School in Gliwice, in 2014 I completed my master's degree at the Faculty of Dance Theatre at the Academy of Theatre Arts in Krakow (Bytom), and I am currently a student at the Doctoral School of the Academy of Music in Łódź. As a freelancer, I have danced in many productions, both in Poland and abroad, including the National Opera in Warsaw, the New Theatre in Łódź, and the Kuala Lumpur Performing Art Center. I currently teach at the Faculty of Choreography and Dance Techniques at the Academy of Music in Łódź and at the Faculty of Dance at the Academy of Humanities and Economics in Łódź. I have participated in many festivals, including: International Contemporary Dance Conference in Bytom, Gdańsk Dance Festival, SzólóDuó Dance Festival in Budapest, Open Stage M1 CONTACT Festival in Singapore, International Dance Festival New Dance for Asia in Seoul and Goyang International Dance Festival in South Korea. I have studied with Jacek Łumiński, Joseph Fruck, Idan Cohen, David Zambrano, Kuik Swee Boon, Guy Cools, Arno Schuitemaker and many others. Andrzej Molenda - I have a PhD in Physics, and I also have a BA in Choreography and Dance Techniques and a MA in Somatics in Dance and Therapy from the Academy of Music in Lodz. I currently work at the Lodz University of Technology, and I have also worked as a lab technician at the Institute of Electronics and Photonics in Warsaw and at the Copernicus Science Center in Warsaw, where I was involved in popularizing science. I am the author of several publications on field theory and quantum nonlocality paradoxes, as well as an article comparing chaos theory with dance improvisation. My experience in various fields of science, dance, and pedagogy resulted in the educational program "Physics in Dance", which is part of the research on embodied knowledge. I participate in webinars of the Embodied Design Research Laboratory at Berkeley University in California.