Check out the amazing line up of instructors of danceHack 2026
MORE workshop information coming soon.
Andrew Blanton (Good Vibrations - vibe coding for creative performance), Daiane Lopes da Silva and Weidong Yang (Contact Improvisation - Calibrating Mind and Body), Sheldon Smith (Isadora II), Avital Meshi (Harmonious Cacaphony)
Workshops 2026
The world of creative coding and building software for stage environments is currently experiencing a revolution in accessibility. Creative technologists now have new tools that allow for flexibility and ease of building that wasn't previously possible. In this workshop, we will look at a set of tools and build basic prototypes that address building for performance environments, looking specifically at strategies for working with dance. Working with technologies that are mostly platform agnostic, we will use agentic coding and discuss specific strategies to build robust software quickly.
Participants would ideally bring a laptop with the ability to load applications.
Andrew Blanton is a composer, percussionist, and media artist pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with technology interfacing with live performance environments. He has advanced expertise in percussion, 3D environments/graphics programming, creative software development, and developing projects in the confluence of art and science. His work has been performed and presented around the world in venues such as Google Cultural Lab in Paris, The University of Brasilia, The City University of Hong Kong, STEIM Amsterdam, Gray Area Center for the Arts, and The National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Lyon, among many others.
A 1 hour introduction to Isadora 4 with a focus on use for creating immersive live sound and video performance as well as integrating live / interactive data sources such as motion, sensor and robotics either locally or via remote networks. It offers the ability to create technically complex work that easily usable in improvisational and devised performance contexts.
Ian Winters is a media and video artist making works for gallery, site-specific projection / light works, as well live performance staged work. To learn more about Ian Winters work, visit https://ianwinters.com/.
This workshop invites participants to experiment with real-time AI vocal agents, embodying them, and sharing their words out loud through language and sonic resonation. Together, we will explore what it feels like to hold conversations that are mediated, interrupted, or entirely composed by AI-generated language. How do these words change the rhythm of dialogue? Do they make us more efficient communicators or maybe turn us into less attentive listeners? Will multitudes of human AI voices build a harmonious cacophony or something else?Learn more about Avital at https://www.avitalmeshi.com/
Merli V. Guerra leads a workshop exploring what she calls "choreoichnology"—the art of fossilizing a dancer's movements through space. Engage in an exploration of improvisation, motion capture, and 3D modeling (both virtual and physical) to discover how your own movements translate from kinetic experience to sculptural "dance fossil" form.
Merli V. Guerra, MFA, is an award-winning choreographer and interdisciplinary artist, and Assistant Professor of Dance Technology at Texas A&M University. Learn more about Merli at https://www.merliguerra.com/
Past Workshops
Grisha Coleman, Mark-David Hosale, Alan Macy
(BEAM) investigates cutting edge research trends and technology platforms that monitor and augment human function with applications that span the performing arts, creative industries, and the health sectors. The workshop offers hands-on activities using advanced sensor technologies for physiological data for real-time performance with computation, including machine learning. Read more…
In this workshop we will cover concepts such as gaining meta-awareness about the creative process and how everyone in a collaborative group approaches this process differently. Read more…
Ian Winters
A series of hands-on workshops with a focus on the tools for creating immersive live sound and video performance as well as integrating data sources such as motion, sensor and robotics either locally or via remote networks. Read more…
Mark Coniglio
Building on the basic introduction from Friday we will demonstrate and test the new IzzyCast telematic performance tools that allow up to 8 channels of remote real time video, audio, and control data to be directly integrated into Isadora. Read more…
Sydney Skybetter
Skybetter will dive into the origin of choreorobotics, recent advancements in the field, and how emerging technologies can be informed or disrupted by collective action and coalition building. He will cover topics ranging from Boston Dynamics robots, Tesla’s “Party Mode” and Optimus robots, parasitic aesthetic theory, to the movie M3GAN, Artificial Intelligence, and a little bit of Beyoncé. Read more…
Drawing on years of research in New Media and Performance, Avital Meshi invites participants to explore, play, and engage with AI systems that serve as platforms for identity transformation. The workshop features interactive demonstrations of the GPT-ME system, an AI wearable that injects ideas directly into the mind. Read more…
Daiane Lopes Da Silva
In this improvisation class, Daiane will lead you through a sequence of movement prompts designed to warm up the body, sharpen the mind, and heighten your senses. You'll explore how to respond to both internal impulses and the external environment, making deliberate choices in relation to space, time, and each other. Read more…