Movement Lab MeMoSa: From "Outside Out" to "Open Machine" by Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener.
From "Outside Out" to "Open Machine" by Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener is the first MeMoSa of 2025-2026!!!
Wednesday, September 10th | 6:00-7:15 PM (Doors 5:45 PM)
ABOUT THE MEMOSA
Rashaun + Silas will share documentation of their recent public work Outside Out, incorporating drones and mobile cameras, created for the inaugural Sugar, Sugar! festival at Domino Park in Williamsburg. They will discuss the process of integrating new media into their dances, and the forthcoming project Open Machine, featuring ground-breaking media design by Jesse Stiles to premiere at NYU Skirball September 19-20.
ABOUT THE WORK
Open Machine is the newest work from acclaimed choreographers Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener. A co-commission from NYU Skirball and The Walker Art Center, Open Machine extends Mitchell and Riener’s experiments with dance for cameras and screens—such as in TESSERACT, their 2017 collaboration with Charles Atlas—and incorporates recent group practices of uncertainty. Celebrated for their innovative, collaborative choreography the duo channel this signature precision in Open Machine, where technological and human paths converge into a dynamic choreography for the stage that imagines an Artificial Intelligence lovingly programmed by experimental dance.
Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener are New York-based dance artists. Their work involves the building of collaborative worlds through improvisational techniques, digital technologies, and material construction. They met as dancers in the Merce Cunningham Dance company and since 2010 they have created over 25 multidisciplinary dance works including site-responsive installations, concert dances, gallery performances and dances for film in venues such as the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Barbican Centre, REDCAT, The Walker Art Center, and MoMA/PS1. Throughout they have maintained a commitment to queer culture and aesthetics.
To visit, please RSVP by email with “FULL NAME + EMAIL” to movement@barnard.edu before the event. We will coordinate entry through the main entrance (3009 Broadway). Visitors with Barnard/Columbia IDs may enter without prior arrangement.