Ontological Mutany



Performance | 40min | Startelpa Performance Festival | Riga | Latvia

A dance tale for the threshold of extinction.

Ontological Mutany is a cross-disciplinary performance set in a near-future ecosystem, where artificial intelligence merges with vanishing species, and the human body becomes a prosthetic echo of the more-than-human world it has replaced.

Set in a landscape of accelerating collapse and cybernetic longing, the piece asks: what happens when our bodies begin to mimic the forms we have extinguished? What is lost when velocity replaces vibration, when design overtakes dreaming?

Performed by the Human Clay Dance Collective, this 40-minute work weaves movement, sound, and speculative myth to reflect on identity, rupture, and biomechanical estrangement. As birds once rich in flight and spirit are mechanically reborn—faster, larger, but unable to dream—a dystopic ecology emerges. One where function is severed from meaning, and aspiration dissolves in circuitry.

This is not a performance of resolution, but of tension. A choreographic rupture in a world where the human begins to haunt what it can no longer become.


Direction & Costume Design: Anna Kushnerova

Live Sound & Vocals: Anastasia Freygang

Cinematography and Photography: Raúl Bartolomé

Performers: Sofia Kovarich, Tejus Menon, Anna Kushnerova, Alexandra Jane Wynne, Miguel Valentini