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LILITH.AEON
LILITH.AEON is a 60-minute immersive experience blending dance and AI. Audiences move around a giant LED cube, where their movements shape the performance of Lilith, a virtual being between death and digital rebirth. Each show is unique, creating a live dialogue between human and machine.
Drawing on experiences of personal bereavements and inspired by the true story of the youngest cryogenized person, the immersive and interactive installation LILITH.AEON questions the future of humanity in the age of transhumanism and artificial intelligence.
This 60-minute experience, unfolding on the walls of a monumental LED cube, invites audiences to follow the life cycles of Lilith: a virtual being, a reincarnation both digital and poetic, a soul trapped in limbo, suspended between death and a future awakening.
As the public wanders around the work, it comes to life through the encounter and interaction between spectators’ movements and the AI’s choreographic responses, in a dance where human and machine interact, Unreal Engine and LED technology power a performative ballet that is always unique and everevolving.
Through this visceral experience, LILITH.AEON explores the new relationships we have with technology, particularly in the face of the possibility of transcending biological mortality.
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Credits
Concept, Direction, Choreography, Dance: Aoi Nakamura & Estéban Lecoq
Production: AΦE
Performance: LILITH.AEON
In memory of Matheryn Naovaratpong, Emiko Nakamura and Suzane Fourmi
Powered by: Scan Computers and NVIDIA
Co-produced by: La Filature, Scène nationale de Mulhouse and Studio & Ateliers, E-nov Campus
Supported by: Arts Council England, Innovate UK, Institute of Cultural and Creative Industries – University of Kent, Creative Technology, Centre for Dance Research – Coventry University
This performance is a part of AECFest, a multidisciplinary public arts festival that alternates annually between Asia and Europe. In 2026, it will be presented as a festival-in-a-festival within SPRING, taking place from May 14 to 23. This edition marks the third consecutive year that AECFest is hosted within a major international festival platform, following editions in Italy (2024) and China (2025).
The Asia-Europe Cultural Festival (AECFest) is organized by Asia Europe Foundation with the financial support of the People’s Republic of China and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark.
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