Dances with Robots

Sydney Skybetter sits down with Dr. Sarah Bay-Cheng, a performance studies professor, scholar, and Dean at York University in Toronto, Canada. They discuss their shared expertise in deaning, puppetry, and the COVID moment. Read the transcript, and more in our archives at  https://www.are.na/choreographicinterfaces Like, subscribe, and review here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dances-with-...

Sydney and Ariane showcase two groups of artists leading the way in combining technology with the performing arts. Sydney talks with choreographer Bill T. Jones, while Ariane chats with dancers Alice Sheppard and Laurel Lawson. See featured guests, read the transcript, and more in our archives at  https://www.are.na/choreographicinterfaces Like, subscribe, and review here:  https://podcasts.apple....

Sydney Skybetter sits down with artist Raja Feather Kelly to talk about his work in live performance. The two consider airport security and the end of the world, and Raja shares how his personal experiences and creative work shape one another. About Raja:  Choreographer/Director Raja Feather Kelly is the artistic director of dance-theatre-media company the feath3r theory (founded in 2009).  In 201...

Sydney Skybetter discusses some of the core theories that he teaches at Brown. Turns out, what works in the dance studio doesn't always work in the real world. See featured guests, read the transcript, and more in our archives at https://www.are.na/choreographicinterfaces/dwr-ep-9-turning-the-tables Like, subscribe, and review here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dances-with-robots/id171566...

Sydney Skybetter sits down with performance historian Doug Eacho to discuss emergent technologies of the last century. They explore how sci-fi has influenced our expectations for the future of performance, and why these expectations almost never become reality. About Doug: Douglas Eacho is a performance historian and theater director. His current research project concerns artists and engineers who...

Ariane Michaud, CRCI's Executive Producer, steps in this week as host. She explores various forms of emerging tech, from the New York Police Department's deployment of "Spot" robots to getting drones ready for dance performance. What are the challenges? The risks? The opportunities? See featured guests, read the transcript, and more in our archives at https://www.are.na/choreographicinterfaces/dwr...

Sydney Skybetter sits down with choreorobotics innovator, Dr. Catie Cuan. They discuss her personal and professional trajectory, and try to answer the question: why dance with a robot? About Catie: An engineer, researcher, and artist, Dr. Catie Cuan is a pioneer in the nascent field of 'choreorobotics' and works at the intersection of artificial intelligence, human-robot interaction, and art.  She...

Sydney Skybetter gives us an inside look into his research into chorerobotics; the overlap of choreography and robotic motion planning. He and the CRCI team ask questions about the risks and the implications of the work, and what it means to make a robot do the mashed potato. See featured guests, read the transcript, and more in our archives at https://www.are.na/choreographicinterfaces/dwr-ep-5-d...

Sydney Skybetter and producer Kamal Sinclair chat about the intersection of the cultural sector, emerging technologies, and the vintage hardware that shaped their childhoods. Are we all complicit in these complex cultural systems? Oh, and also, can we please bring back the Filofax? About Kamal: Kamal Sinclair supports artists, institutions, and communities working at the convergence of art, media,...

Sydney Skybetter interviews John Underkoffler, the Science and Technology Advisor for the 2002 movie Minority Report. We talk about how the infamous computer gesture scene that made John famous led to the founding of Oblong Industries, a company that tried to make Minority Report's speculative interfaces a reality. See featured guests, read the transcript, and more in our archives at https://www.a...

Kate Gow, CRCI's archivist and web designer, sits down with host Sydney Skybetter to discuss historical intersections of dance and technology. Turns out that the weird history of dancers catching on fire, Degas, and the Nazis have a lot to do with the dance of the future. About Kate: Kate Gow is an archivist and designer of digital spaces. Her work revolves around memory, the body, and how we inte...

Welcome to Dances with Robots! In this introductory episode, Sydney Skybetter recounts the beginnings of the Conference for Research on Choreographic Interfaces, aka CRCI (pronounced Circe, like the Greek sorceress), and breaks down how, and why, we work in dance and emerging technologies. See featured guests, read the transcript, and more in our archives at https://www.are.na/choreographicinterfa...

The Conference for Research on Choreographic Interfaces (CRCI) presents Dances with Robots: a podcast catalyzed by the corporeal risks and expressive opportunities of contemporary technologies. Join our host, choreographer and Dean at Brown University, Sydney Skybetter, alongside a series of guest hosts, as we explore the ways that artists, activists, and technologists navigate the world through i...