The Golem-Labor is an international series of workshops organized by the Goethe Institute bringing together contemporary dance and mixed reality technologies in Prague, Riga, Bogotá, and Tel Aviv. The Golem-Labor explores transnationally the interface of art and technology, man and machine, physical and virtual reality. 

For this project, I served as the Artistic Director envisioning choreographic research methods for the dancers, and designing virtual choreographies with the motion capture renderings. 

In the Golem-Labor, dancers and XR artists worked with the Rokoko motion capture system to explore their body movements in virtual space. I led dance participants in a series of movement tasks which were captured and rendered in virtual environments. These included exploring speed, levels, rotations, and micromovements within the body through improvisational dance. 

From this anatomical research, I designed short virtual choreographies, placing them in a virtual model of the workshop site in Mozilla Hubs. 3D artists developed the virtual environments while onsite during the workshops and virtually.

Our team thereafter created a database of movements recorded during each workshop in efforts to archive dance and observe expressions of dance from cultures around the world.