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Performance

VenueTheatre Royal
Also: The Studio
TownYork
CountyNorth Yorkshire
From25th October 2024
To26th October 2024
When19:30
Theatre Royal (V954)
Current/Future Listings
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  • Date of change: 8 Aug 24 - T01363346991

Company Wayne McGregor - Autobiography (v95 and v96)

Company Wayne McGregor

Work:: Company Wayne McGregor (S02028373285)

Company Wayne McGregor is a Resident Company of Sadler's Wells and winner of the South Bank Show Award for Dance, The International Theatre Institute's Award for Excellence in International Dance, The Movimentos Award and the Critics' Circle Award.

Production:: Autobiography (v95 and v96) (T01363346991)

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. Now the 95th and 96th iterations of Autobiography come to Sadler's Wells in a captivating evening that is never quite the same as before.
Producer Studio Wayne McGregor
Producer Sadle's Wells
Producer Les Theatres de la Ville de Luxembourg
Producer Edinburgh International Festival
Producer UK; Festspielhaus St Pölten Austria
Producer Carolina Performing Arts at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill USA
Producer Movimentos Festwochen der Autostadt in Wolfsburg Germany

Listing:: L1062376294




Current production:Work

Autobiography (v95 and v96)

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. Now the 95th and 96th iterations of Autobiography come to Sadler's Wells in a captivating evening that is never quite the same as before.

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