 | Devolution: Dancing Robots on Stage |
Posted 7 Feb 2006 at 14:05 UTC by The Swirling Brain  |
Choreographing a stage full of dancers is a bit of challenge. What to
do? Better props? Better costumes? We could tie a rope to a dancer
with a harness and swing them over the crowd? Riverdance was always a
hit! Let's do something really special like that! How about this year
we cross
the Riverdance and Robots and get
violent dancing robots on stage! Adelaide-based Australian Dance
Theatre have incorporated robotic towering, ambulatory, geometric
structures and smaller, swarming silvery creatures with spidery legs
that perform as equal partners with the humans on stage. The show,
called Devolution, is noisy, violent and artistic. It is a strange
dancing collaboration of humans and robots. The software to make the
robots move with the dancers is complex yet the machines can many times
mimic the organic movement of humans. I'm imagining something like
Riverdance and something noisy like Stomp, towering and artsy like
Cirque Du Soleil with humans and robots.
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