Digital Body Festival

A new festival celebrating the intersection of the moving body and digital technology.

Founded and curated by Alexander Whitley Dance Company, Digital Body Festival provides a platform for world-class artists, thinkers and emerging talent to showcase work across multiple digital formats that invites the public to move and explore physical creativity in all its forms.

Taking place at Hackney Bridge, Hackney Wick from 15-17 November 2024, the Festival celebrates developments in interactive and immersive technologies, which enable wildly new forms of physical experience, exploding the possible forms the moving body can take and opening up exciting possibilities for artists and audiences.

As part of the festival East London Dance, in partnership with London College of Fashion, UAL, present work by two Creative Lab Alumni. Elisabeth Arifien’s dance solo Boundless Body will be performed on Sunday 17 November at 8:15pm and Sian Fan’s digital installation Incantation will be available to experience throughout the weekend.

Additionally, across the weekend, there are a host of further exhibitions, performances, workshops and live discussions to enjoy. Find out more and book your tickets here.

“New interactive and immersive technologies have the power to speak directly to our embodied and spatially situated experience of the world, engaging the primal and universal language of movement as a basis for storytelling and meaning making. At the same time technologies such as motion capture, 3D animation and Artificial Intelligence are providing artists with the tools to reimagine how moving bodies and the stories they carry with them are constructed and represented, providing new canvases through which physical identities and relationships can play out. I’m fascinated by what this opens up for movement-based creativity and audiences’ direct, physical engagement in ideas being explored.”

Alexander Whitley
Creative Director, Digital Body Festival