What happens when a dancer is challenged by a digital counterforce that recognises, reframes, and translates movement into an audible dance partner? Can we expect a co-created performance between a human performer and a digital learning system? And if so, what are the creative and ethical conditions that shape it?
In collaboration between ICK Dans Amsterdam and Waag Futurelab, this workshop, performance and discussion explores embodied creativity at the intersections of human movement and AI.
Together, we examine what it means for a body to dance with — and against — an algorithm, and what emerges when dance meets machine interpretation.
The session will start with a Double Skin/Double Mind (DS/DM) movement workshop, the dance method developed by artistic directors of ICK Dans Amsterdam Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten.
Participants will then experience excerpts from Prologo d’Entrata , the opening scene of the dance opera WE, the LUST (2024) where the dancing body constantly reshapes a musical score by means of an AI Toolbox that analyzes and transforms movement into sound.
The performance will be followed by a discussion with Hiroki Nunogaki(ICK), Suzan Tunca(ICK), Francesco Cutillo, (ICK), Ola Bonati (Waag) and the participants.
This session is part of the EU research project HAMLET, which seeks to understand the conditions under which the cultural and creative industries can be empowered through AI and collaboration.