"Bodies in Hyperreality" by Mingyong Cheng, Shimmy Boyle, Katherine Helen Fisher; Photo by Lauren Lancaster
Last week, an exhibition curated by Collaborative Arts Visiting Assistant Arts Professor Katherine Helen Fisher and featuring work by Collaborative Arts Assistant Director of Technical Operations Alan Winslow opened in the gallery of the Doris Duke Theater at Jacob’s Pillow in Becket, Massachusetts. Through immersive, interactive installations, Dancing the Algorithm meditates on movement in the algorithmic age, dissolving boundaries between physical and virtual, human and machine, performer and spectator. Here, the dancing body doesn’t just adapt to technology—it shapes it, challenges it, and celebrates the choreographic possibilities it creates.
The exhibition features numerous works, including Lamentation: Dancing the Archive, created by Xin Ying in collaboration with Kate Ladenheim, Katherine Helen Fisher, the Martha Graham Dance Company, and Alan Winslow. Lamentation: Dancing the Archive allows audiences to manipulate a volumetric (3D) video of Martha Graham’s iconic 1930 work, Lamentation, with their own gestures and movement. The user engages with this work through embodied channels, fostering closeness to this work and building bridges from past to present.
Dancing the Algorithm was featured in the New York Times on July 8, and Forbes on July 27. The exhibition will be on view through August 24, 2025.
