Isaiah Wilson’s Tech-Driven ‘Score’ Premieres at Edinburgh Fringe

A multi-genre meditation on humanity’s interventions with technology and nature, Isaiah Wilson’s intriguing ‘Score’ is set to wow audiences in Scotland this August.

With the support of Kultur|lx – Art Council Luxembourg (Part of Luxembourg selection 2025), artist and choreographer Isaiah Wilson will bring his enthralling and dystopian show Score to Edinburgh this August. Manipulated via Electric Muscle Stimulation (EMS) connected to a midi piano controlled off-stage by Wilson, Score sees the heavily wired bodies of three performers pulsed and pushed into a performance of physical overstimulation and movement – all without the trio ever having to engage in direct cognitive effort.

A work that seeks to challenge the interpretations and expressions of performance, Score explores the tentative relationships between our human bodies and the technological machines that surround us. On a minimalist stage reminiscent of a not-too-far-away future dominated by the cold clinicalness of ever-advancing automation, Isaiah Wilson’s complex dance and theatre piece untangles a series of vital questions necessary to understand our past, present, and future: How has technology simplified our lives? How has it disconnected us from our free will and mental capacities? Will it out perform us – and do we allow it to compete against the human body forever? Can true performance exist when led by machines?

Part of the highly anticipated Assembly @ DanceBase programme, Score sees performers and co-creators Aurore Gruel, Meggie Isabet and Wilchaan Roy Cantu’s muscles pulse, jerk, oscillate, and vibrate in perfect time with each musical note to create a dance that is externally led – a breathtaking and unique performance formed through an EMS-based tool capable of generating ultimate synchronicities beyond the highest levels of human discipline or physical prowess.

Isaiah Wilson is an experimental multidisciplinary artist based in Luxembourg. His work combines contemporary dance, video, electronic music and computational art, mediums that allow Isaiah to create unique and immersive worlds in which he invites his audience into layered sensorial experiences. In all his work, Isaiah makes a point to have the audience be part of the space and as a result, part of the performance, be it through the nature of the sites he chooses or by reimagining their very framework. Isaiah creates art pieces that challenge the human body, plunging it into worlds built from chaos and hope. With an existentialist reading, his work aims to explore the many facets of human emotions by showing them through an absurd lens, juxtaposed with the ever-changing technological advancements of the 21st century.

Showing from 12 – 14 August in Scotland’s creative capital, Score will invite festival audience into a strange world of wonder and morbid curiosity –  a fictitious world that edges on the real...

Assembly @ Dance Base, DB1
Dates: 12 – 24 August 2025
Time: 21:40 (30 mins)

Main Image: Courtesy of Score