2025; Stanford, California

Performance of Kinematic/Kinesthetic at Stanford Live’s Bing Concert Hall (327 Lasuen St, Stanford) on Wednesday, May 21 (7:30 p.m. performance), including work by AXIS Dance Company and choreographer and roboticist Dr. Catie Cuan. There will be a post-performance panel discussion featuring Nadia Adame, Ben Levine, and Catie Cuan, moderated by Sydney Skybetter.

2025; Los Angeles, California

Sydney Skybetter is an expert in choreorobotics, a portmanteau of choreography and robotics. Choreorobotics considers how bodies in motion - human or otherwise - move through space and time to generate meaning. In his piece Clock, Fall, Skybetter dives into the relationships between dance history, emerging technologies of embodied artificial intelligence, and next-generation space habitations. He will cover topics ranging from Boston Dynamics robots, Tesla’s “Party Mode” and Optimus robots, parasitic aesthetic theory, the movie M3GAN, microgravity performance and a little bit of Beyoncé.

This lecture will take place at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), at the School of Theater, Film & Television, Center for Performance Studies. The venue is Kaufman Hall, Room 208.

2025; Boston, Massachusetts

In “Clock, Fall,” Skybetter dives into the origin of choreorobotics, recent advancements in the field, and how emerging technologies can be informed or disrupted by collective action and coalition building. This informative talk will be presented Thursday, April 3rd (12:00pm-1:45pm), by The Critical & Creative AI Studies Lab at Emerson College, located at CoLab in the Iwasaki Library & via Zoom.

2021; Hong Kong, China

With the confluence of accelerating trajectories, including the development of AI, climate change, and the rising economies of East and Southeast Asia, and shifting geopolitical matrixes that challenge post-war indexes of power, we approach a critical moment in history, an appropriate time to reflect on the meaning of art and art-making in a Southeast-Asian context.  On the occasion of Ken Ueno’s installation performances of Daedalus Drones at the Asia Society, a panel of experts is assembled with the aim of tackling this reflection from broad and diverse critical perspectives, commenting on the various vectors that Ueno’s work encompasses.

2021; New York, New York

Professor of Choreography and Emerging Technologies at Brown University, Sydney Skybetter, narrates the choreographic history that bridges dancing military robots, surveillant software platforms and centuries-old French dance notation practices. Through analyses of ballet history and contemporary robotics manufacturer Boston Dynamics, Skybetter will sketch out the risks and opportunities of the emerging, interdisciplinary field of choreorobotics.

2021; Edinburgh, Scotland

Where does the body meet technology? Are we at the forefront of the blend of body and technologies, or does soft flesh still meet hard metal? Where does the body end and the robot begin? With former soldier / author and artist Harry Parker + choreographer and robotic researcher Sydney Skybetter.