Sep 30, 2026
Before you can fly, you have to learn to fall.
In March 2026, CRCI gathered dancers, artists, and embodied researchers for Space Camp, an experiment in what moving bodies might bring to humanity's future off Earth. Guest host Fynn Kugel takes us inside: tumbling onto crash mats and swinging from trapezes at STREB...
Sep 9, 2026
Getting to space is an engineering problem. Living there is a design problem.
In Episode 4 of Dances with Robots, host Ariane Michaud sets the rocketry aside and asks what an ordinary day off Earth might look like. Her guides are space architect Brent Sherwood and space journalist Maria Varmazis, who chart an industry...
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...