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Human/AI Dance

Dancing Embryo

Dancing Embryo

Diego Marín & Benedikte Wallace - England, 2022

THE PROJECT

Dancing Embryo is the artistic manifestation of the project Human-AI Dance. It includes performance art and an interactive installation where human and AI creativity converge. The installation looks to offer two open-interaction modalities: users can engage physically with an intelligent, pictorial being capable of either co-creating movement or facilitating a dance learning experience. Through motion sensors and mixed reality, the exhibition space becomes a liminal zone—a threshold where human embodiment and AI agency intertwine in real-time choreographic dialogue.

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HUMAN-AI DANCE PERFORMANCE

Dancing Embryo includes kinematic demonstrations and stage performances where Artificial and Human intelligence co-create in real time. These dance pieces are performed by Diego Marín and an AI Dancer developed by Benedikte Wallace.

Human-AI dance demonstration

Dancing Embryo Tour 2024

PERFORMATIVE INSTALLATION

Dancing Embryo works on the development of two possible displayments installed in open interactive places such as galleries or museums. The project includes AI software, video introduction for users, development of protocol for the creative lab and technological/spatial installation at the venue.

TEAM

TEAM

Diego Marín

PhD fellow at University of Oslo. Lecturer in the Master of Performing Arts at Universidad Internacional de la Rioja. Diego is an established dance artist and researcher, he has lectured at the CFI University of Cambridge and Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance in London. He is graduated from Choreomundus: International Master in Dance and current PhD candidate at RITMO Centre of the University of Oslo.

Benedikte Wallace

She earned her PhD at the University of Oslo (RITMO Centre) and is now a Postdoctoral researcher exploring expressive motion in robots. Her work bridges art and technology, with extensive research on generative AI for music and dance. She is also the creator of the AI Dancer featured in this project.

6A9 | Audiovisual production

6A9 is a Creative studio focused on audiovisual production directed by Arturo Rentería and Alvaro Arriola. They are creatives and producers of visual and sound content of the project.

The beginning

In 2021, Diego and Benedikte started exploring the sonification of dance by using wearables to produce music while dancing. Later in 2022, both produced research plattforms such as the workshop 'Embodying AI' at University of Arts London and the presentation 'Human-AI Dance: hybrid co-creativity in the posthuman era' at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (University of Cambridge). Diego and Benedikte’s AI Dancer performed live in the conference 'Human+AI Collaborive performance' in 2022, where 6A9 joined the project to later produce the dance film "Dancing Embryo".

In 2023 Dancing Embryo earned the 'SACPC Interdisciplina y Transdisciplina' award (Cultural Ministry of Mexico) to disseminate perspectives on Human-AI creative collaboration in the cultural industries through a series of talks, performances and the publication of the book "Encarnando lo Artificial" (Embodying the artificial).

Its English edition is being published by Intellect Books and Chicago University Press, available in spring 2026.

 

BOOK

Embodying the Artificial

 
[Spanish edition]



MORE PUBLICATIONS


Artistic Statement

Diego Marín

Artificial Intelligence and humans:
Understanding a new language for the creation of aesthetic movement.

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Enacting Dance Experience Through Human-AI Kinematic Collaboration

Diego Marín

Documenta Journal

Volume 42: Dancing Machines

https://doi.org/10.21825/documenta.93276

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What happens when Art meets AI?

Benedikte Wallace at TEDxArendal Oslo

Media

PRESS

"Diego Marin's project is recognised and supported by the LCFI University of Cambridge for challenging the boundaries of the intersection of the arts and contemporary technology."

Government of Mexico (2022)

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MEDIA
[español]

México y la danza del futuro

 

By the Mexican Cultural Centre UK

(Content in Spanish)

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Danza híbrida: creación humana y artificial

 
By Universidad Internacional de la Rioja
(Content in Spanish)
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MEDIA
[english & norsk]

Artificial intelligence and dance

 

By the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing

(Dance Magazine Issue 498)

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Mechanical Fragility: Dance + Technology

 

By Danseinformasjonen

(August, 2025)

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