What if agency were to emerge from a machine? What might it decide to do, to become, to express? How would we relate to each other or to it? Would we stand before it and embrace it as our creation? Or would our human experience collapse as we know it? And do these thoughts scare you or excite you?  

This performance takes audiences on a compelling journey through humanity’s techno-evolution – from the birth of mathematics to the speculative emergence of autonomous technologies – all conveyed through the universal language of dance.  

Project Details

• Year: 2025
• Type: stage performance
• Role: Main dancer and keynote speaker
• Part of the Making Waves: Spring 2025, Edinburgh Future Institute

Watch full video: https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/in-the-shadow-of-tomorrow-a-preview-and-an-invitation

Credits

• Choreographer: Madeline Squire 
• Dancers: Yuxi Jiang, Madeline Squire, and students from the DSE dance programme
• Composer: Jo Patterson 
• Creative Technology: Alexandre Colle, Camila Jimenez Pol
• Supported by the University of Edinburgh, Moray House School of Education and Sports, Edinburgh Future Institute, and Andrew Coleman