Three bodies enter a system. They repeat, obey and function as expected.<\/p>\n
Then something goes wrong.<\/p>\n
That breakdown is the starting point of \u201cRESET,\u201d a physical-theater work by Argentine performers Alfonso Bar\u00f3n, Luciano Cort\u00e9s and Luciano Rosso, coming to Miami\u2019s Koubek Center Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe wanted to talk about the speed of the world we live in and how we\u2019re constantly running after this ball, or this carrot, that seems to be life,\u201d Rosso says.<\/p>\n
Presented by FUNDarte, Miami-Dade County Auditorium\u2019s \u201cAway from Home\u201d Series and the Koubek Center, \u201cRESET\u201d uses movement, extreme gesture, absurdist humor and tightly synchronized choreography to explore technology, artificial intelligence and the systems increasingly woven into everyday life.<\/p>\n
The project began with a proposal from FUNDarte and the desire, Rosso says, for three longtime friends to create together. Their questions about the accelerating pace of contemporary life quickly led them to technology and AI \u2014not only as subjects, but as tools in the creative process.<\/p>\n
Rosso experimented directly with artificial intelligence while developing the work, using prompts and ideas to generate material that could become a starting point for scenes.<\/p>\n
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Luciano Rosso in \u201cRESET.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m a theater animal,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019d rather spend that time rehearsing a new show than creating content online.\u201d (Photo by Javier Labrador, courtesy of FUNDarte) <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was sort of a collaboration,\u201d he says, amused by the idea. \u201cIt\u2019s strange to say that because we\u2019re talking about technology and not a person. But I learned how to approach it so it could give me material that I could then enrich.\u201d<\/p>\n
The results surprised him.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had never given AI this kind of role in the creative process,\u201d Rosso says. \u201cIt became a trigger for so many things, and some of those scenes are still evolving\u2014a little like technology itself.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rosso and Bar\u00f3n, both based in Paris, bring to \u201cRESET\u201d a long shared history performing together in \u201cUn Poyo Rojo,\u201d a largely wordless physical-theater work that has toured internationally for more than 15 years.<\/p>\n
Cort\u00e9s followed a different path. An actor, dancer and physical-theater performer, he has worked with the Argentine immersive-theater company Fuerza Bruta and Catalan experimental-theater company La Fura dels Baus. After moving to Miami in 2018, he founded the physical-theater company Salvaje Teatro, bringing his own approach to movement and performance to the trio.<\/p>\n
Joining an established partnership made Cort\u00e9s apprehensive at first.<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir bodies had already developed this symbiosis,\u201d he says. \u201cI wondered how my body, with its own way of moving, would fit into that dynamic.\u201d<\/p>\n
![\"Luciano](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/RESET-3-500x333.jpeg\" "\\"RESET-3-500x333.jpeg\\"")
Luciano Rosso, Luciano Cort\u00e9s and Alfonso Bar\u00f3n in \u201cRESET.\u201d \u201cThere is something about the value of the living human body\u2014the body that gets tired, becomes exhausted, fails\u2014that connects us with our humanity,\u201d says Cort\u00e9s. (Photo by Javier Labrador, courtesy of FUNDarte) <\/p>\n
Instead, he says, the connection came quickly.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been friends for many years, and we share humor and many ways of seeing and thinking about art,\u201d Cort\u00e9s says. \u201cSuddenly we became a triad, like a chord with three notes. We played it, and it sounded wonderful.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bar\u00f3n says the three also share an instinct that became essential during the creative process: saying yes to one another\u2019s ideas.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf somebody says, \u2018I want to be a dinosaur,\u2019 and somebody else says, \u2018I want to be a robot,\u2019 instead of saying no, you say, \u2018OK, let\u2019s make robot dinosaurs,\u2019\u201d he says. \u201cInstead of shutting down an idea, you accept it and see how you can transform it.\u201d<\/p>\n
As the work took shape, that creative freedom gave way to tightly structured choreography.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is very little room for improvisation now,\u201d Bar\u00f3n says. \u201cThe movement has to be extremely precise to create the effect we want. Suddenly you\u2019re human, then an android, then an animal. The quality of movement keeps changing.\u201d<\/p>\n
For all its focus on technology, Bar\u00f3n describes what happens onstage as surprisingly handmade.<\/p>\n
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Alfonso Bar\u00f3n in \u201cRESET.\u201d \u201cIn a world that is becoming more virtual, theater for me is a place of refuge and salvation,\u201d Bar\u00f3n says. (Photo by Javier Labrador, courtesy of FUNDarte) <\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you see it, you\u2019re going to see something very artisanal,\u201d he says. \u201cWe represent things in a very theatrical way. Technology doesn\u2019t win.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are no machines,\u201d Bar\u00f3n continues. \u201cYou see three people representing technology with their bodies. In a world that is becoming more virtual, theater for me is a place of refuge and salvation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cort\u00e9s takes the question further.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat interests us, beyond technology being the excuse for all of this, is \u2018What is the value of the human being onstage in this era?\u2019 \u201d he says.<\/p>\n
He notes that AI has already entered music, writing and film, but theater may be a different genre altogether.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe feel that theater may be one of those territories of resistance where it is very difficult for AI to enter. So our question became: How does AI enter that territory?\u201d<\/p>\n
Cort\u00e9s says the audience sets theater apart.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor theater to exist, that connection with the audience has to exist,\u201d he says. \u201cThere is something about the value of the living human body\u2014the body that gets tired, becomes exhausted, fails\u2014that connects us with our humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n
For Cort\u00e9s, those questions also resonate with the city where \u201cRESET\u201d will be performed. His work in Miami has included physical and immersive productions that challenge conventional relationships between performer and spectator.<\/p>\n
\u201cTechnology crosses our lives every day,\u201d he says. \u201cBut what happens to the body and to the real connection between human beings?\u201d<\/p>\n
He sees that question playing out in ordinary Miami life, where even getting together with friends can require coordinating packed calendars weeks in advance.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re creating all this technological paraphernalia, and it\u2019s great,\u201d Cort\u00e9s says. \u201cBut it is also distracting us and pulling us away from what is essential.\u201d<\/p>\n
But \u201cRESET\u201d also intends to make audiences laugh.<\/p>\n
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Luciano Cort\u00e9s, Alfonso Bar\u00f3n and Luciano Rosso star in \u201cRESET.\u201d Rosso says the work grew from a desire to explore \u201cthe speed of the world we live in\u201d and the constant race to keep up with it. (Photo by Javier Labrador, courtesy of FUNDarte) <\/p>\n
For Rosso, humor has been part of his language since childhood, when he would stand in front of the television during family dinners, dancing and lip-syncing to commercials.<\/p>\n
\u201cHumor is very healthy. It\u2019s something beautiful, a way of communicating that fills my spirit,\u201d he says. \u201cOnstage, it is a wonderful and very powerful weapon. It\u2019s been part of me since before it became my career.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bar\u00f3n hopes the physical language of the work leaves space for audiences to find meanings of their own.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou lead the audience in a direction, but that direction opens other places,\u201d he says. \u201cThe meaning may be one thing for you, another for me and another for my mother.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rosso has a simpler test for what he hopes audiences carry with them after \u201cRESET.\u201d<\/p>\n
First, he wants them to have a good time. Then, perhaps, to leave with something to think about.<\/p>\n
And one more thing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d love for people to leave the theater and not want to look at their phones for a while.\u201d<\/p>\n
If you go:<\/p>\n
WHAT: \u201cRESET\u201d by Alfonso Bar\u00f3n, Luciano Cort\u00e9s and Luciano Rosso<\/p>\n
WHERE: Koubek Center, 2705 SW 3rd St., Miami<\/p>\n
WHEN: 8 p.m., Friday, Aug. 28, and Saturday, Aug. 29<\/p>\n
COST: $20<\/p>\n
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