STEAM Salon with Dance Squared: Dancing with Robots

Powered by Research Education at University Libraries. STEAM Salon is an informal series held in the STEM Library featuring faculty and student speakers in science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics who engage and inspire our university community with their current research.

Dancing with Robots

DANCE² is a dance performance about human-robot interaction and our collective feelings about technology’s influence on the future. Audiences use their smartphones to interact with the performance, influencing the choreography of the human and robotic dancers. Through their choices, the audience explores the question of whether emerging technology is bringing us closer together or pulling us farther apart.

Created through the support of an Arts for All ArtsAMP Collaborative Faculty Grant, UMD Immersive Media Design program, UMD School of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, UMD College of Information, UMD Department of Art, and UMD Department of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences.

The project will be represented by a panel of the following faculty:

• Adriane Fang, School of Theatre, Dance, & Performance Studies
• Jonathan Martin, Immersive Media Design
• William Kules, College of Information
• Huaishu Peng, Department of Computer Science