Alone. We repeat. Endlessly. You’re invited to arrange these three acts into an order that resonates with you. This collaboration between 3D artist Matunda Groenendijk and Choreographer Amit Palgi reflects on the cyclical nature of existence through motion and momentum, touch and trace. The virtual space allows you to explore life’s patterns through presence and embodiment. How do you choose to engage with your cycles?

WIP presentation at IFFR and DDW. Première at SXSW.

Choreography & Dance: Amit Palgi

VR Design: Matunda Groenendijk 

VR Design Assistant: Ines Fernandes, Storm Bosten, Bas van den borg

VR Advisor: Demian Albers

Music & Sound: Mathijs Leeuwis & Anthony Fiumara

Distribution Manager: Nienke Huitenga

Interaction Developer: Matunda Groenendijk

Interaction Developer Assistant: Roy Bomhof

Production Assistant: David Feenstra

Electrical Engineer: Ir. Martijn Hubers

Created by the support Stimulerings Fonds and NL Film funds.

Exploring body intuition and AI’s understanding of it

What was your childhood like?

— As humans, we all feel an immediate physical response upon reading these words. Our bodies carry knowledge that can translate these feelings into movement. These movements can, in turn, touch and evoke emotions, among other things. We find this phenomenon incredibly interesting and relevant to the essence of what makes us human.

Starting in October 2025, Amit Palgi and creative technologist Joyce den Hertog began a process of inviting an intelligence without a body or feelings to explore this phenomenon with us; to tease, challenge, and inspire us to wonder: What is this intuition? And what is its future?

We developed an AI Question to Motion generation tools, that is used for workshops, a choreographic tool, and installation.

Created by the support Stimulerings Fonds. 

Together with the musician and technologist Matteo Traverso, we are developing a Performative Bio-Meditation Concert. The concert aims to bring attention to the inner life our body has by creating sound based on body sensors. Like that we merge our discipline and play together - me by moving slowly and manipulating my body, and Matteo by collecting my bio data and generating music based on it.

Created by the support of cross-tic and Ries Opera.

But this time it was different. I felt like they knew me. 

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AI and a choreographer collaboration. All the art pieces you see in this film are made without any real person moving. The AI created them by combining a script I was writing and the character I taught it to recognize. In that way, I could create a dance film without dancers. 

The understanding of AI is still very limited, so it was hard to create something with a clear artistic statement. Therefore, I decided to collect these videos under a film with a live recorded dancer who plays a visitor in a museum and discover he is the main character in all the art pieces.

360° Dance film, of 5 min. In order to watch it you need to have a VR headset. If you have one and want to watch my film, feel free to contact me.

"YOU DON’T WANT TO KNOW WHAT REALLY WAS MY FIRST THOUGHT WHEN I WOKE UP”

Created performed edited by Amit Palgi

Music: Claude Debussy - Clair de Lune

Presented at Vrij Paleis Gallery, Cinedans, Berlin Lift-Off Film Festival, The Southern California Drone Film Festival, San Francisco Arthouse Short Festival. 

Video dance that was created after quarantine at the first corona lockdown. march 2020. Few months later, inspired by this video I created the solo 'Amit?' that you can find at the stage creations.

Music: Erik Satie - Gymnopédie no.1 

Concept, preforming and edit - Amit Palgi 

Amit Palgi on a bed. created at may 2020.

Concept, preforming and edit - Amit Palgi