Intro

A mysterious instrument draws a performer into a ritualistic encounter with her digital double. Guided by touch and movement, the virtual body gradually takes on a life of its own. Across stage and screen, their duet shifts between control, imitation, resistance and entanglement, as each begins to reshape the other.

Combining contemporary dance, motion capture, live virtual imagery and mechanical instrumentation, Vestige unfolds as a theatre of automation. In a world where presence is increasingly mediated by cameras, machines and agentic code, the work considers how our sense of agency changes when the systems we create begin to learn from, respond to and transform us.

Vestige is co-produced by Onassis ONX and supported by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, WLab, NYU Tandon and ZeroSpace. Vestige premiered at Southbank Centre in London at the inaugural Creative Intelligence Festival.