"In the 1950s, the British mathematician Alan Turing devised a test in which a judge asks questions of two subjects: one a computer and one a human. The judge, unable to see the two, receives text answers, and based on those must render a judgment on which subject is human...

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After beginning to develop a dance piece based on Turing's life, Musante and his collaborators realized they were most intrigued by the Turing test than telling a conventional biography, particularly the underlying questions it proposes, among them: What does it mean to be human?

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His evening-length dance-theater piece, "the.humanest," shed the biographical format to use the Turing test's format to ask questions about two different sets of dance pieces.

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"We're not asking you to choose which is real and which is fake," Musante said. Instead, they'll present two variations on a scene, and ask the audience which is the most human in a playful format that asks for their participation and feedback.

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-Corey Walsh, The Missoulian  click for full article

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video of MT production forthcoming

video of original NY production here