Marlon Barrios SolanoMaker in Residence, Center for Arts, Migration + Entrepreneurship at the University of FloridaInterdisciplinary artist, researcher, and educator · Art, AI, creativity, cognition, and embodiment

Work

Choreographic Coding Lab

A Motion Bank format.

Facilitation

The Choreographic Coding Lab is a traveling laboratory founded by Motion Bank. For a few days, creative coders, dancers, choreographers, and researchers work side by side, translating choreographic thinking into digital form and applying code to movement, scores, and data. The emphasis is on experiment, invention, and peer-to-peer exchange.

Since 2013 the format has moved between cities. I facilitated the last two editions in the UK, invited by Aoi Nakamura and Esteban Lecoq of A+E Lab, their art and technology hub in Chatham, Kent.

Royal Ballet and Opera

The Choreographic Coding Lab at the Royal Ballet and Opera took place May 30–June 7, 2026, as part of the RBO/SHIFT festival. The public sharing was on June 7 at PLAY SHIFT. Participants worked inside the house, across costumes, archives, and technical production. I facilitated it with Anton Koch (Motion Bank) and Daniel Bisig (Zurich University of the Arts). Aoi Nakamura and Esteban Lecoq of AΦE / A+E Lab hosted. The lab was commissioned by the Royal Ballet and Opera, with support from ElevenLabs.

A+E Lab on the Royal Ballet and Opera lab

CCL at the Royal Ballet and Opera, May 30–June 7, 2026. Watch on Vimeo
The group of participants and facilitators posed together in the studio.
Participants and facilitators. © AΦE / A+E Lab, CCL at the Royal Ballet and Opera, 2026.
Marlon Barrios Solano sits at a laptop during a working session, holding a printed page, with other participants at tables behind him.
Working session at the Royal Ballet and Opera, 2026. © AΦE / A+E Lab, CCL at the Royal Ballet and Opera, 2026.
A group gathered in costume storage, with painted scenery, corsets, and a chandelier around them.
A visit to costume storage during the lab, June 2026.
People gathered around laptops, monitors, and a sound setup during the public sharing.
Public sharing, Royal Ballet and Opera, June 7, 2026.
A monitor on a flight case shows a standing figure with large digital wings.
Public sharing, Royal Ballet and Opera, June 7, 2026.
A close view of a monitor showing a kneeling figure with a fan of digital forms behind them.
Public sharing, Royal Ballet and Opera, June 7, 2026.
Three people with Royal Ballet and Opera lanyards seated together at a wooden table.
During the Choreographic Coding Lab at the Royal Ballet and Opera, June 2026.

A+E Lab, Chatham

The second International Choreographic Coding Lab at A+E Lab ran March 24–28, 2025, in the Historic Dockyard, Chatham, with a public sharing on March 28. This was the lab’s second edition in the UK, and its focus was artificial intelligence. I facilitated it with David Rittershaus (Motion Bank, Hochschule Mainz) and Daniel Bisig (Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University, Zurich University of the Arts, and Motion Bank). Aoi Nakamura and Esteban Lecoq hosted the week.

The gathering opened the evening before, on March 23, with XR Sunday Social at A+E Lab.

A+E Lab on the Chatham lab

2nd International Choreographic Coding Lab by Motion Bank and A+E Lab, Chatham, March 24–28, 2025. Watch on Vimeo
XR Sunday Social, A+E Lab, Chatham, March 23, 2025. Watch on Vimeo