Projects
Different Bodies – Dancing with Robots
Coventry Centre for Dance Research & Candoco
Dancing with Robots will be a performance in which dancers from leading UK dance company Candoco, including dancers with disabilities, improvise with robots. Conceptually, it will explore themes of close bodily contact, improvisation, robot, and human vulnerability, and will deliberately challenge the normative assumptions of motion capture, sensing, AI, and robot technologies with regard to disability. It will build on a previous collaboration between Nottingham and the Centre for Dance Research at Coventry University to personalise prostheses by ‘dancing with algorithms’, and a UKRI TAS Hub feasibility project to explore the creative possibilities of dancing with robots.
Coventry Centre for Dance Research
TAS Hub Dancing with robots 01
TAS Hub Dancing with robots 02
Outputs and Highlights
Friction in Processual Ethics: Reconfiguring Ethical Relations in Interdisciplinary Research. Rachael Garrett, Patrick Brundell, Simon Castle-Green, Kat Hawkins, Paul Tennent, Feng Zhou, Airi Lampinen, Kristina Hook, Steve Benford. CHI ’25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article No.: 400, Pages 1 – 15
In the Moment of Glitch: Engaging with Misalignments in Ethical Practice. Rachel Garrett, Kat Hawkins, Patrick Brundell, SimonCastle-Green, Paul Tennent, Feng Zhou, Airi Lampinen, Kristina Hook, Steve Benford. CHI ’25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article No.: 407, Pages 1 – 18