On the internet, any content such as an article, video, song or idea can spread like avirus across the globe, connecting millions of people within minutes. This concept is referred to as “going viral”. Why certain things go viral and others don’t is generallyconsidered a mystery.In 2018 creative duo Daae/Nordahl fed 250 viral dance videos from the past twenty years into a computer program, a neural network, that studies movement patterns.The choreographies were separated into individual dance moves before the program analyzed the time variations, spatial directions, types of movements and their relative frequency. By doing this the system was trained to simulate a brand new choreography: the world’s first AI-created viral dance, the ultimate viral dance.What does it take for something go viral? For a few moves to become a global movement? Through a curated international exhibition, an online experiment and a live contemporary dance show, longterm collaborators DAAE/NORDAHL explore the history and future of connectivity, through the lense of what it means to be human today.https://theviral.dance/