Choreographies of Discard is an extractive enquiry, juxtaposing the labor of dance and the work of machines, both physical and computational, into a critical narrative. The performance includes Lydia Touliatou (dancer), Esther Calderon Morales (sound composition and performer) and Samir Bhowmik (narrator). Background Machine Learning (ML) and data analysis is done by Minh Anh Nguyen on Mudras, that are gestural movements in Bharatnatyam, a classical Indian dance.

Team Credits: 

Direction, Script & Narration: Samir Bhowmik

Sound Composition: Esther Calderon

Data Analysis & Machine Learning: Minh Anh Nguyen

Choreography & Performance: Lydia Touliatou

Funded by Research Council of Finland & University of the Arts Helsinki. Thanks to Nitin Sawhney and all the crew at Aalto ARTS.

Photo Credits: Jenni Holma / CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

All background images are in the Public Domain and/or CC BY 4.0