Hacking Choreography 2.0

Hacking Choreography 2.0 is a collaboration between Nick Rothwell and Kate Sicchio that combines creative concepts from choreography and dance composition with the technical principles involved in computer programming. The premise was that the creative process of conceiving and structuring choreographic material has parallels with the process of developing algorithms and transforming information structures in software – a process that we also regard as both exploratory and creative. As a starting point, we looked at the semantic basis of the programming language Clojure; a contemporary variant of Lisp that combines functional programming with state-of-the-art mechanisms for manipulating structured data. The way in which Clojure represents data informed the visual structure and aesthetic of the projected text-based geometry which was used as a cueing system by the dancer.