Year: 2025
Location: New York, NY
Part of the inaugural season of the new Doris Duke Theater at Jacobo’s Pillow Dance Festival, Dancing the Algorithm is an exhibition that invites you to move, play, and explore the emerging ways technology shapes our experience of embodiment. We don’t just use technology—we wear it, speak to it, and even dance with it. It anticipates our desires, blurring the line between tool and companion. But what if, instead of seeing technology as something that controls us, we embrace it as a space for joy, resistance, and transformation?
Through immersive, interactive installations, this exhibition reimagines movement in the algorithmic age, dissolving the boundaries between physical and virtual, human and machine, performer and spectator. Here, the dancing body doesn’t just adapt to technology—it shapes it, challenges it, and celebrates the new possibilities it creates.
Quote about my inspiration for the exhibit:
“If technology is already deeply embedded in our daily lives, what does that mean for how we experience embodiment? While we often think of technology as something separate from us—looming and ominous—it is, in fact, intimate. We wear it, we speak to it, it anticipates our desires. If technology is already shaping our perception of the world, perhaps it has the power to be not just a tool of control, but also a site of resistance, of play, of reimagining what it even means to be human."
Featured photo credit: Superradiance by Memo Akten and Katie Peyton Hofstadter
