Open Machine

Opening Date: Sep 19, 2025

Closing Date: Sep 20, 2025

https://nyuskirball.org/events/open-machine/

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NYU Skirball

566 LaGuardia Place New York, NY 10012

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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.

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Performance Schedule:

FRIDAY & SATURDAY @ 7:30 PM

Cast

Savannah Gaillard
Jennifer Gonzalez
Michael Greenberg
Claude (CJ) Johnson
Catherine Kirk

Choreography

Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener

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Shagan Box Office in the lobby of NYU Skirball, 566 La Guardia Place (just south of Washington Square South).
Hours: Tues - Sat, noon to 6pm and two hours before show times.

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B, D, F and A, C, E all service West 4th Street and are the shortest walking distance to the center. Other trains within walking distance include N,R at 8th Street, 6 at Astor Place, 1,9 at Christopher Street and L,N,Q,R,W,4,5,6 at Union Square