Hey Google! 202?

Hey Google! is currently in-development. “Hey Google!” was originally created in 2020 as an interactive dance experience done with a Google Home Mini smart speaker. One of the traditional roles that clowns or jesters play in Indigenous societies is to interrupt serious occasions and make fun of our rules. These misbehaving entities repeatedly disrupt protocol and ceremony to make room for foolishness and laughter. In the 2020 Hey Google!, the irreverent Google Home Mini played the role of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) version of the clown. Guiding García through her choreographic explorations, it challenged the seriousness of the performance and made space for the good medicine of silliness.

However the world has changed since 2020 and we are now in the midst of an AI evolution. There is something of universe building about AI. As we love and fight and die and live in our human bodies, what is being born in the non-human realm of AI, perhaps at first with human instruction....and then?

This new, in-progress multi-media dance work further explores the idea of the trickster spirit within AI tools. Hey Google! asks us to consider whether or not this wileyness helped create AI, lives within it and/or was born in the aether.

Photo by Spencer Scholes taken during the “Hey Google!” audience participatory workshop

at Living Arts, Durham, NC

Part participatory workshop, part performance, Hey Google! is designed for intimate groups of people.

  • Performers: solo + audience

  • Length performance-only option: 20 minutes

  • Length full immersive experience (includes an audience participatory workshop + solo dance performance): 90 minutes - full day options

  • Venues: intimate spaces, gallery settings, small theaters

  • Audiences: suitable for ages 13+

BY

Artistic Director: Maura García (non-enrolled Cherokee/Mattamuskeet)

WITH

Dance: Maura García

Music Excerpts: Mark Gabriel Little, Adrian Harjo (Kickapoo/Seminole)

Playwright: Madeline Easley (Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma)

Script Adaptions & Additions: Maura García

Voiceovers: Mark Gabriel Little, Maura García, Mark William T. García (non-enrolled Cherokee/Mattamuskeet)

AND

Animation: Mark William T. García

Choreography: Maura García

Costume on Stage: Maura García

Costume in Video: Mona Cliff (A'ananin)

Soundscape Composition: Maura García

Video Editing: Maura García

Videography: Flick Harrison, Polity Media Lab

Videography (projected film): The Fleet NYC LLC

SPECIAL THANKS TO

Development Dramaturgy: Mark Gabriel Little, Mona Cliff (A'ananin), Karen Lisondra, Julia Soap (Prairie Band Potawatomi/Cherokee Nation), Mark William García (non-enrolled Cherokee/Mattamuskeet), Ayo Beason (A’ananin/Osage), Mavcy^ka Beason (A’ananin/Osage), Washoshé Beason (A’ananin/Osage) and 2020 Movement Research