Dancing Together Apart

At a time when the Choreographic takes on renewed sense of possibility as we adapt to rhythms an epidemiological model society, dances remediation, that collapse distinction between interpersonal and infrastructural modes sensing world, offer, argue, possibilities for perceiving making our changing lifeworlds (Bratton 2022). In this writing, reflect upon artistic research project composed choreographic relations corporeal, conceptual informational modes, bringing attention expressive attuning to, regulating each other, even at distance.  Mental Dance involved multiple agents shaping  states distributed across physical digital networks. choreographing work drew current neuroscientific into Bayesian Brain Predictive Coding.      explored intersection dance, interactive sound design psychiatry through unique performance system blended these diverse ‘mental spaces’. Hagendoorn (2019) describes spaces’ ‘temporary thought assemblies are constructed one thinks speaks’ (756).  In languages movement music were remediated AI flux somatic expressed by two live performers. Realtime data generated dancers’ movements tracked pose recognition software shaped choreosonic environment online audience (Brown 2021b).  Our method intuitive kinesthetic haptic sensory awareness AI’s capacity learn, together with appropriation theories Brain.  Staging provocations from psychiatry, mimicked idea clinic site soma-sci experimentation. generating empathic addressed relational intimacy neural resonance distance, navigated uncertainty unpredictability repeated lockdowns in Melbourne, Australia, countering despair ennui excitement challenge connecting remote co-presence. Dancing Together Apart, probe wiring igniting ideas sparked collaborative propose improvisation bring virtual studio where it can inform influence direction new cultivate altered state kinetic intensities held agencies, human non-human.