Aug 26, 2026
How do our bodies adapt to an environment they were never designed for?
In Episode 3 of Dances with Robots, host Ariane Michaud takes up one of the hardest problems of living beyond Earth: what microgravity does to the human body. She talks with Janna Kaplan and Vivek Pandey Vimal, researchers at the Ashton Graybiel...
Aug 12, 2026
Who gets to imagine humanity's future beyond Earth, and who gets left out?
In Episode 2 of Dances with Robots, host Ariane Michaud sits down with Nahum, artist and founder of the Kosmica Institute, and interdisciplinary artist Sage Ni'Ja Whitson to pose a question the space sector rarely asks of itself: not why we go,...
Jul 29, 2026
What do dancers have to do with the future of space exploration? This season explores how movement research informs life in microgravity, how choreography structures astronaut training, and what happens when questions of access, capitalism, and imagination extend beyond Earth. If outer space is part of our shared...
Jul 23, 2026
We were taught that space belongs to astronauts, engineers, and billionaires. But if space is part of all our futures, then who gets to shape it should belong to all of us. So what, if anything, can dancers do about it?
In Season Two of Dances with Robots, host Ariane Michaud follows that question through conversations...
Feb 15, 2024
Sydney Skybetter sits down with Dr. Sarah Bay-Cheng, a performance studies professor, scholar, and Dean at York University in Toronto, Canada. They discuss their shared expertise in deaning, puppetry, and the COVID moment.
Read the transcript, and more in our archives at https://www.are.na/choreographicinterfaces
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