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The Viral Dance

“It seems clear that electronic technology has given us a new way to look … One can make things with it, one doesn’t have to put things in one already knows…. one can make discoveries…”
– Choreographer Merce Cunningham, 1968.

On the internet, any content such as an article, video, song or idea can spread like a virus across the globe, connecting millions of people within minutes. This concept is referred to as “going viral”. Why certain things go viral and others don’t is generally considered a mystery.

In 2018 Daae/Nordahl fed 250 viral dance videos from the past twenty years into a computer program, a neural network, that studies movement patterns. The choreographies were separated into individual dance moves before the program analyzed the time variations, spatial directions, types of movements and their relative frequency. By doing this the system was trained to simulate a brand new choreography: the world’s first AI-created viral dance, the ultimate viral dance.

What does it take for a dance to go viral? For a few moves to become a movement? Through a curated exhibition, a viral experiment and a dance show DAAE/NORDAHL explores the concepts of connectivity and sharing, and what it means to be human today.

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