Sydney Skybetter is a choreographer.
Hailed by the Financial Times as "One of the world's foremost thinkers on the intersection of dance and emerging technologies," his choreography has been performed at venues including Jacob's Pillow, The Joyce Theater, and the 92nd Street Y, and he has lectured at the University of Cambridge, Yale, Mozilla, and Gray Area Festival. His work has been supported by the Ford Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and a Creative Capital "Wild Futures" Award. He is a Senior Affiliate of metaLAB at Harvard University, Founder of the Conference for Research on Choreographic Interfaces, and Host of the podcast "Dances with Robots". Sydney serves as Director of the Brown Arts Institute and Associate Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, and was the first choreographer at Brown University to receive tenure. He resides in Providence, Rhode Island with his partner, their feral children and a supposedly hypoallergenic cat.
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September 12, 2025
Lecture at Grey Area Festival
Sydney Skybetter will be presenting an excerpt from his new lecture “How to Punch Space Nazis in Zero-G”
Once heralded as an escape from our bodies, cyberspace has only intensified our obsession with the fleshy reality of embodied existence. Gray Area Festival’s 11th edition will confront this paradox head-on—showcasing radical bodily transformations that defy mainstream "optimization" narratives. Through provocative talks, installations, and performances, we'll explore the far reaches of cyborgian experimentation, challenging what bodily autonomy truly means in 2025.
