From Dance Archive to Creative Catalyst with Google AI
Your body of work is a data set. Every creation, every iteration, every experiment is a point of information that defines your unique language. What if you could have a direct conversation with that history?
This is the question behind the work of Sir Wayne McGregor, the multi-award-winning British choreographer and director. His career has been a constant inquiry into how we think with the body, transforming his studio into a laboratory for physical experimentation.
A Dialogue with 25 Years of Work
In a collaboration with Google Arts & Culture Lab, McGregor developed AISOMA. It's a Google AI-powered tool that acts as a creative partner, generating new, original dance movements rooted in his distinct choreographic language.
AISOMA isn't designed to give you a finished product. It's a catalyst. McGregor first used it in his studio to expand on and challenge his own movement sequences, using it to interrogate his existing ideas.
How You Create with AISOMA
The process is direct. You perform a short dance. A custom AI analyzes your movement and then extends your sequence with original phrases drawn from McGregor's vocabulary.
The system was trained on a massive archive-nearly four million poses extracted from hundreds of videos spanning more than two decades of McGregor's work. Using TensorFlow 2 and MediaPipe, the model analyzes the human body in three-dimensional space. This allows it to comprehend the intricate, architectural grammar of a body in motion.
It's about seeing movement and its physical potential in a new light.
A Starting Point, Not an Answer
AISOMA is an invitation to become an active participant in the creative process. It provides a new starting point, a fresh prompt to break out of established patterns. It treats creation as an act of play, a physical language in a constant state of evolution.
Amit Sood of Google Arts & Culture notes, "AISOMA uses AI to bring Wayne's seminal and transformative body of work through a new lens, giving everyone an invitation to play, explore, and push the boundaries of their own creativity."
This is not about replacing the artist. It's about augmenting them with a new kind of collaborator-one that holds the memory of their entire creative past.
Experience Wayne McGregor's AISOMA on Google Arts & Culture. You can also see it in his exhibition, Wayne McGregor: Infinite Bodies, at Somerset House from October 30th, 2025, to February 22nd, 2026.
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