conference for research on choreographic interfaces
CRCI This Year: Completed June 2025 @ Brown University
Founded by Sydney Skybetter in 2015, CRCI 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.
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CRCI 2025:Moondance
The Conference for Research on Choreographic Interfaces (CRCI) celebrated its 10th year with an annual gathering at Brown University, June 12–14, 2025, in Providence, Rhode Island. This year’s themes explored the intersections of choreography, performance, and emerging technologies of the body in environments beyond Earth. How might live performance and arts research take shape in microgravity? Given the colonial imperatives of space exploration, how can rethinking terrestrial creative practices contribute to justice work?
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“with our powers combined, with all of our divergence and disagreement, [CRCI] might eventually result in the sorts of art, theory, criticism, and practice that define the insurgence required to bring about a less fearful world.”
— Sydney Skybetter, A Conference for Choreographic Interfaces
Dances with Robots podcast
SEASON ONE of the Dances with Robots Podcast, hosted by Sydney Skybetter, focused on the emerging field of "choreorobotics" in relation to Boston Dynamics and their AI Institute. Season Two, hosted by CRCI executive Producer Ariane Michaud, follows an ambitious experiment, supporting four dancers in exploring movement in microgravity aboard a parabolic flight. Through conversations with astronauts, engineers, artists, and anthropologists, the podcast examines how space exploration will shape the artistic and cultural practices of the future.
