“Adroitly put together, [Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener’s] choreography is studded with real beauty and invention.” —New York Times
Open Machine is an open experiment. In a new Walker commission, choreographers Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener return to Minneapolis for the first time since their lauded Charles Atlas collaboration, Tesseract (2017). As former Merce Cunningham dancers, Mitchell and Riener approach movement with both virtuosity and playfulness. Here, alongside five other dancers, they probe the relationship between human intelligence and machine intelligence, examining the role of surveillance in private and public life. Merging speculative sci-fi with queer cultural aesthetics, the duo creates a new embodied language, a new open machine.
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