An NYU Skirball commission, Open Machine is the newest work from acclaimed choreographers Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener. This World Premiere extends experiments with dance for cameras and screens in earlier works like TESSERACT (2017) and combines recent group practices of uncertainty. Audiovisual description, projected images and virtual renderings amplify and react to the unfolding dance. Technological and human paths converge into a dynamic choreography for the stage that imagines an Artificial Intelligence lovingly programmed by experimental dance.
The cast of 11 move with precision and abandon, and grapple with responsive choice-making systems. As they synthesize disparate modes of working, they reflect the social and spatial structures that shape our daily lives.
