Pillow Lab:
The Choreodaemonic Collective
At Perles Family Studio: Mar 22
Event Dates
About
The Choreodaemonic Collective
Developmental Residency | March 18-25, 2025
Invited Showing | March 22, 2025
Founded by Laurel Lawson and Sydney Skybetter, the Choreodaemonic Collective is a collaborative ensemble of artist-technologists that partner choreography with technology to investigate the boundaries of the individual, collective, and environment.
In this residency, the Collective will develop The Choreodaemonic Platform, an installation and performance in which artists, audiences, and artificial intelligence (A.I.) contend with the sometimes symbiotic, sometimes adversarial relationship between nature, art, and emerging technologies. The artists seek to work with projections and a floating robot dancer-body to refine the robot’s kinaesthetic responses to people’s movements and to explore opportunities for audience interaction to further develop a dance party concept.
Lawson is a transdisciplinary artist-engineer whose work imagines new kinds of experience, including traditional choreography for disabled and nondisabled artists, as well as novel ways of extending and creating art through technology and design. Lawson understands disability and access as aesthetic perspectives, leveraging user-experience design to create impactful immersive experiences.
Skybetter has been hailed as being among “the world’s foremost thinkers on the intersection of dance and emerging technologies” (Financial Times), and his choreography has been performed at venues including the Kennedy Center and Jacob’s Pillow. Skybetter is Faculty Director of the Brown Arts Institute at Brown University, and brings extensive expertise to the Collective.
Major support for The Choreodaemonic Collective is provided by the Ford Foundation.
Location
Perles Family Studio
Want to see the work? Jacob’s Pillow Members at the $500 level and above, as well as our College Partners, are invited to Jacob’s Pillow to attend an in-person showing by the artists at the end of the residency. Video livestreams may also be available for certain showings. This opportunity is offered by email invitation in advance of the event.
Already a Member or College Partner? RSVP links will be emailed to you directly at the email associated with your Membership or College Partnership. Have questions or want to attend via Zoom? Please email membership@jacobspillow.org or community@jacobspillow.org.
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Lead support for the Pillow Lab is provided by the Mellon Foundation
