Victoria Becker
Artist in Residence
Based in: Germany
Supported: Vienna Local Urban Lab
Victoria Becker is a contemporary dancer, choreographer, and dance teacher with a strong classical foundation and a passion for experimentation and improvisation. She is currently dancing with Moveo Dance Company in Malta, while also working as a freelance artist on various projects across Europe. Her movement practice is rooted in contemporary dance and enriched by training in ballet, acrobatics, dynamic floorwork, and contact improvisation.
Alongside her work as a performer, Victoria is developing her choreographic voice through a small number of original creations. Her piece Encounter, co-choreographed with Sebastian Schmidt, was selected to be performed at the ADEB Dance Platform. In her choreographic work, she approaches improvisation as a research tool, allowing movement to emerge through curiosity, structure, and spontaneity.
In addition to performing and creating, Victoria is an experienced dance teacher who values knowledge sharing and collaborative processes. She is particularly interested in artistic research, experimentation, and the ongoing dialogue between technique and contemporary performance.
"The Weight of a Prompt", 2025
Contemporary dance performance
The Weight of a Prompt is a contemporary dance performance that explores the hidden ecological impact of artificial intelligence.
The work focuses on the water consumption behind AI systems, especially the resources needed to cool data centers. While AI often appears fast, invisible and weightless in everyday life, the performance asks what material traces these digital processes leave behind.
Through movement, physical tension and choreographic repetition, the piece translates abstract data into a bodily experience. The dancers explore the contrast between the smooth, seamless use of AI and the heavy infrastructure that supports it. The “prompt” becomes something with weight, consequence and physical presence.
Developed during the residency, the performance draws from research, discussion and embodied experimentation. It reflects on the relationship between technology, water, sustainability and responsibility, making visible what usually remains hidden behind screens and systems.
The Weight of a Prompt invites the audience to question the resources behind contemporary digital life and to consider how seemingly immaterial technologies are deeply connected to the natural world.
