So many friends in the NYT - @sydneyskybetter , @CatieCuan , @sicchio ! (I'd also point anyone interested in recent computationally intensive dance to Liz Santoro & Pierre Godard's work.)

https://tinyurl.com/yxqgm2f7 

However... I have thoughts:
Dances With Robots, and Other Tales From the Outer Limits

Artificial intelligence and dance may seem like strange bedfellows, but artists and engineers are using technology to expand the possible.

https://tinyurl.com/yxqgm2f7
(1) Who are the 'skeptics' that always get trotted out in articles like this? The work featured here has done well with audiences, critics, funders... not to mention Google. What is the narrative need for boogeyman of technophobic opposition?
(2) It's frustrating that (Western) dance gets presented in this article as 'natural' / un-technical, when not only has dance engaged with industrial and digital tech extensively since Loie Fuller, ballet is the *epitome* of formalization, techno-corporeality, etc.
(3) To gesture at my current research - Cunningham was no 'pioneer' here. Computers wrote choreography from 1964-77, presented at major conferences + museums across US, South Am, EU. Jeanne Beaman & Analivia Cordeiro deserve this credit.
(Ccl) Really looking forward to the day when popular writing on computers and performance internalizes that computers have been around a long time -- and that what's novel about these artists is *what* they are making with this (old) tech!
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