Ashley Ferro-Murray’s conviction that “no one knows better than artists what they need,” based on her own personal experience as a working artist, guides her approach to her role as program director for the arts at the Doris Duke Foundation. In addition to placing trust in dancers and choreographers, the multi-pronged approach Ferro-Murray has developed […]

As AI technologies proliferate and become an increasingly inescapable fact of modern life, choreographers are not only experimenting with AI tools, but they’re also creating works that grapple with the potential repercussions of artificial intelligence and the existential questions it raises. “That’s what artists do,” says Lise Friedman, adjunct professor at New York University and co-organizer of a 2025 symposium on dance and technology. “Artists are always interested in looking around the corner.”

Kinetic Light’s territory, which premiered this summer, uses technology to place each audience member right in the center of the action: The 11-minute piece is designed for and created in virtual reality. Its digital environment features an otherworldly mountain range, a swirling sky, and, at times, metal and barbed-wire structures, which form the set for […]

Nowadays, it’s easier than ever to access personal health data with the Apple Watch, Oura Ring, and other biosensor-based products. In the field of dance medicine, researchers are also using this technology to better under­stand the dancing body. Kaitlyn Kumar, a dancer and a master’s student in robotics at Johns Hopkins University, says that while […]

Motion capture has been a staple of film, TV, and gaming for multiple decades. And dancers, as expert movers, are often involved in the recording process. But, recently, artificial intelligence has led to advances in performance-capture and animation technology, making it simpler to record, analyze, and digitally re-create a person’s movements. (Those clunky sensors might soon be a thing of the past.) While these changes have the potential to streamline the motion-capture process, they also introduce new questions about the future of artistic production—and dance artists’ role in it.

I was one of the pioneers of what I call “computational choreography”—dance made with the assistance of computers. In 2007, I created and performed my work Choreobot with VICKi (Virtual Interactive Choreographic/Kinetic instructor), software that I coded to generate choreography, live. My experiences in this constantly evolving field give me a unique perspective on both […]

“Dance in zero gravity completely transforms how we think about choreography and performance,” says Sydney Skybetter, the founder of the Conference for Research on Choreographic Interfaces and director of the Brown Arts Institute at Brown University. “When you remove the floor, which is the fundamental organizing principle of terrestrial dance, bodies become three-dimensional sculptures moving through space multi-axially.” And whether dance artists are exploring movement in microgravity theoretically or literally, the relationship between dance and space brings up myriad questions—creative, logistical, and ethical.

The International Museum of Dance is holding on to the material of dance history while finding ways to equitably compensate artists.