Wayne McGregor's AISOMA

AISOMA turns a short bit of camera-visible movement into a choreographic exchange with Wayne McGregor's archive. The appeal is not a machine delivering a polished routine; it is the odd little nudge of receiving unfamiliar movement material and deciding what your own body should do with it.

What is Wayne McGregor's AISOMA?

This is a dance prompt disguised as a conversation with a machine. Perform a compact phrase, and the system draws on movement data from more than two decades of Wayne McGregor's work to propose a continuation. The useful part arrives after that reply: you can treat it as an instruction, bend it into something comfortable, or let one awkward angle send you somewhere else entirely. The project began as a studio tool for McGregor's dancers before a revised edition opened the exchange to the public online. That lineage keeps the experience focused on choreography rather than on producing a shareable novelty clip.

What you can do there

• Perform a short movement phrase
• Receive a choreographic response shaped by McGregor's archive
• Use the response as a prompt for another movement

Why we picked it

AISOMA makes a dense idea—turning a choreographer's archive into usable creative material—legible through one physical action. It also leaves the interesting decision with the visitor. The generated phrase is not a verdict; it is a peculiar dance partner that offers a move and waits for a human answer.

How to get the most from it

Give the camera enough room to see your whole body, then begin with a short phrase you can repeat. When a response appears, borrow only one detail—a reach, tilt, pause, or change of level—and fold it into a second version instead of trying to copy everything at once.

Good to know

Expect to move in view of a camera. The accessible project pages do not clearly settle camera-data retention, mobile behavior, sound, accessibility support, or browser requirements, and the online interaction was not independently executed. The dated 2025 public edition is distinct from the earlier studio research project.

Who made it, and when?

Studio Wayne McGregor and Google Arts & Culture Lab is the credited creator or organization. The earliest supported launch date we found is October 29, 2025.