PillowTalk: Aoi Nakamura and Esteban Lecoq – Becket, USA

Saturday 12 July, 2025
4:00 to 5:00 pm EDT (GMT-4)
Doris Duke Theatre
358 George Carter Road, Becket, MA 01223, USA (map)

As the founders of AΦE (AE), Co-Artistic Directors Aoi Nakamura and Esteban Lecoq have danced with companies including Jasmin Vardimon and Punchdrunk, and are known for using technology to reinvent the audience’s experience. In this performative lecture, they reveal how the technologies of AI and extended reality were necessary to tell the story of Lilith, the youngest cryogenically frozen person using motion capture, machine learning, and Unreal Engine to redefine immersive storytelling.