QUANTUM CHOREOGRAPHY
LIVE VISUAL PERFORMANCE; 2023 (IBM Horable Mention)
Quantum Choreography is a live performance piece that Investigates the concept of superposition in quantum computing. A qubit in superposition, unobserved, is in all possible states simultaneously. When measured, it must fall to either 0 or 1.
During the performance, the dancer is constantly improving, to repersent the infinite possibilities that lie between measured states. When the light fell on her, making her observable, she chose one of two different static positions, collapsing into a binary.
Real time visuals were created to correspond to the states of being observed and unobserved. When the light is on, we can see the particles cohering to the dancer’s form. In darkness, they shift between different shapes representing infinite possibilities. The shapes are determined by a quantum dice circuit in IBM Quantum Composer, generating true quantum randomness.
Credits:
Live Visual: Marshall Wang
Video Edit: Guanhao Zhu
Creative Tech: Gabriel Lee
Movement: Xiaoyue Zhang