Year: 2025
Location:Jacob's Pillow, Becket, MA
Dancing the Algorithm, a Jacob's Pillow Festival 2025 exhibition, invited audiences 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, becoming an interlocutor in our becoming.
Through immersive, interactive installations, this exhibition was a meditation on movement in the algorithmic age, observing the dissolving 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 choreographic possibilities it can create.
PRESS:
“We’re creating choreographic structures that don’t just reflect what is possible now but are designed to evolve alongside emergent futures.”
“Artists who build their work in conversation with technology are no longer a subgenre of our field or a passing fad,” said Katherine Helen Fisher, the dancer and choreographer who curated the “Dancing the Algorithm” exhibit. “Their work is vital cultural practice, a frontline of social imagination.”
JACOB'S PILLOW DIGITAL CATALOG