Dance duo Jess and Morgs stage 'Deepfake', interrogating truth in the AI era
nordicinst · x · 2026-09-24
Award-winning choreographers Jessica Wright and Morgann Runacre-Temple (Jess and Morgs) premiere Deepfake, a new stage work using green-screen magic and live camera to interrogate truth in the deepfake era.
- Features a fictional politician defending himself in a high-stakes TV-interview setup, echoing a world where fabrication feels plausible
- The duo describes the piece as being about "the strange shifting relationship with the landscape of truth"
- Follows their 2022 hit Coppélia for Scottish Ballet, which recast the classical doll ballet as a cautionary tale of AI automatons
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