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Murmurations is the second part of the bok o bok company's triptych on the extinction of living species, initiated in 2021 with Flying bodies across the fields. It questions humans' attempts to recreate technological palliatives to remedy the disappearance of species and their limits in imitating nature. Winner of the Ministry of Culture's "Mondes nouveaux" program, choreographer Veronika Akopova immerses the viewer in the beauty of movement, which blurs the boundaries between the natural and the artificial.

The use of technology in Murmurations, with robot birds crossing the sky, mingling with moving bodies, creates techno-utopian narratives and questions new forms of 2.0 reincarnation of declining species.

The original score, composed by Andrei Karasev, continues the research on the artifice of the living and uses experimental digital processes. The composer sets up a device that reacts to changes in light and weather conditions and integrates sounds produced by an artificial neural network. He artificially recreates the song of birds, this creative song, facilitator of life, essential for the sound ecosystem of the living.

The costume design, by Clara Daguin, is inspired by the photographic work of Xavi Bou, which materializes the outline of birds in the sky through composite images. In a chromatic range that could be described as hybrid, mixing natural tones and reflective artificial colors, the costumes take up the shapes of bird plumage and tree veins, in a creative symbiosis between handwork and emerging technologies.

This project delivers a metaphorical reflection on the fragile balance of our ecosystems, on the use of technology by humans to compensate for the disappearance of species and their limits in imitating nature.


This work can be presented in its full version for 5 performers (duration 55 minutes), as well as in its version for 1 performer (duration 15 minutes), on stage or outdoors. It is possible to broadcast the recording of the short version online.