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Âé¶¹´«Ã½ recommends AI-enhanced ballet A Body for Harnasie

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By David Stock

27 March 2024

Wayne McGregor & Ben Cullen Williams? A Body For Harnasie, 2024. Photo Credit Ravi Deepres & Luke Unsworth

Ravi Deepres & Luke Unsworth

Contemporary dance, artificial intelligence, orchestral music, Polish folklore – that’s A Body for Harnasie (pictured above), a heady mix from the mind of choreographer Wayne McGregor, working with visual artist Ben Cullen Williams.

I saw this version of Karol Szymanowski’s ballet score at London’s Southbank Centre. The event brought together the London Philharmonic Orchestra with AI-enhanced footage of dancers, projected onto a shape-shifting sculpture (see link above).

I also got a peek at Autobiography v95 by McGregor, which uses Google’s AI tool AISOMA (trained on his archive) to create new movements for this exploration of the self through dance.…

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