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,” Sydney’s choreography has been performed at such venues as The Kennedy Center and Jacob’s Pillow. He has lectured at SXSW, Yale, Mozilla and the Boston Dynamics AI Institute, and consulted for The National Ballet of Canada, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Hasbro, and The University of Southern California, among others. His work has been supported by the 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, a frequent contributor to WIRED and Dance Magazine, the Founder of the Conference for Research on Choreographic Interfaces and Host of the podcast, “Dances with Robots.” Sydney serves as the Deputy Dean of the College for Curriculum and Co-Curriculum, is an 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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CRCI: Conference for Research on Choreographic Interfaces

Coming spring 2023
@ Brown university

The Conference for Research on Choreographic Interfaces was founded by Sydney Skybetter in 2015 at Brown University. It convenes nerds from all over the world (with intimidatingly heterogeneous expertise  in dance, performance, computer science, kinesiology, anthropology, social justice and design) to discuss the relationship between bodies, movement and emerging technologies.