Effort

Effort returns the trace of a model learning from human dance to the body. The training log becomes both music and a sequence of Laban Effort words. The music conditions the trained model and accompanies a human dancer, while the words guide her improvisation as choreographic prompts. The two movements share a training trace and timeline, but take shape through different forms. As movement passes from bodies into data, through training, and back into bodies, the work asks how agency is distributed across dancers, data, models, and artistic interpretation. Who, or what, is making the dance happen?