Friday, 25 Oct
19:30
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Friday, 25 Oct
19:30
Saturday, 26 Oct
19:30
Times
7:30pm
Running Time 1 hour 20 mins
Venue Main House, York Theatre Royal
Price Tickets from £15
Fri 25 Oct - Sat 26 Oct
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Genetic code, AI and choreography merge in a work that re-imagines and remakes itself anew for every performance.
Throughout his career, Wayne McGregor has made choreography that interrogates life through the experience of the body in its multifaceted relationship with technology.
In 2017, McGregor turned his attention to the ‘body as archive’ with Autobiography (1.0), the first in a developing series of unique dance portraits inspired and determined by the sequencing of his own genetic code.
Layering choreographic imprints over personal memoir and in dialogue with a specially created algorithm that hijacks McGregor’s DNA data, Autobiography upends the traditional nature of dance-making as artificial intelligence and instinct converge in creative authorship.
In the latest iterations of the work, AISOMA – a new AI tool developed with Google Arts and Culture utilizing machine-learning trained on 100s of hours of McGregor’s choreographic archive – overwrites the configurations of its initial state to present fresh movement options to the performers, injecting unfamiliar and often startling content into the choreographic ecosystem. Life, writing itself anew.
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Concept and Direction
Wayne McGregor
Choreography
Wayne McGregor in collaboration with the dancers
Music
Jlin
Set Design and Projection
Ben Cullen Williams
Lighting Design
Lucy Carter
Costume Design
Aitor Throup
Dramaturgy
Uzma Hameed
Autobiography Algorithm
Nick Rothwell
Produced by Studio Wayne McGregor.
Co-produced by Sadler’s Wells, London, UK; Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg; Edinburgh International Festival, UK; Festspielhaus St Pölten, Austria; Carolina Performing Arts at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA; Movimentos Festwochen der Autostadt in Wolfsburg, Germany.
Co-commissioned by West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong; Festival Diaghilev. P.S., St Petersburg, Russia; Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimarães, Portugal; Seattle Theatre Group, USA (music); Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London, UK.
Music by Jlin in partnership with Unsound.
