Dan Mussett & Yorrith de Bakker - Fully Automated Luxury Dancing!

What happens to dance and dancers when an algorithm sets the rules?

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What if an algorithm created a dance performance? Every performance three new freelance dancers perform instructions they receive live through headphones. They don’t know in advance what will happen, and step onto the stage unprepared. They plunge into the unknown, as vulnerable bodies within a black box system, responding to a logic whose expectations remain unknowable to them and to us. What happens to the dancer, and to the dance itself, when creativity becomes just another task to be optimised?

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Based on interviews with Belgian dancers, Dan Mussett and Yorrith de Bakker developed a unique performance where the same automated commands never produce the same dance.

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