It’s 2.40pm on a Saturday. I’m standing in one of the smaller rooms in Melbourne’s Arts Centre, while a robotic female voice speaks plainly from a speaker above. Fifteen people are sprawled across the space, lacking any uniformity.
“Are you feeling directionless? Shift in an unusually huge way … Do an east-coast swing dance by Daryl Braithwaite.”
Workshop participants dance to the AI-generated prompts.Credit: Chris Hopkins
Members of the group move fluidly, interpreting the spoken prompts. A few of them have their eyes closed. One girl dances alone in a shadowed corner.
“Your forehead is a glacier … A K-pop music wrestling match inside a tube … Can you taste the hues of your environment as a chameleon would?”
Unfolding in front of me is an artificially intelligent dance workshop. Billed as a program that explores the intersection of dance and AI, it blurs …