Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener: Open Machine tickets

Open Machine is the latest world premiere from acclaimed choreographers Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener. Projected images, audiovisual description, and virtual renderings respond in real time to the dancers, as human and technological pathways converge into a choreography that imagines an artificial intelligence lovingly programmed by experimental dance. Blurring the lines between body, brain, and machine, this genre-defying work creates a constantly shifting, multi-sensory world of performance.

Expanding on their earlier experiments with dance for screen in works like TESSERACT (2017), Mitchell and Riener collaborate with a cast of eleven dancers to explore improvisation, memory, and responsive decision-making. The performers move with both precision and abandon as they navigate choreographic systems that mirror—and disrupt—the spatial and social structures that shape our lives.