Sydney Skybetter is a choreographer.

Hailed by the Financial Times as “One of the world’s foremost thinkers on the intersection of dance and emerging technologies,” Sydney’s choreography has been performed at such venues as The Kennedy Center and Jacob’s Pillow. He has lectured at the University of Cambridge, Yale, Mozilla and the Boston Dynamics AI Institute, and consulted for The National Ballet of Canada, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Hasbro, and The University of Southern California, among others. His work has been supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and a Creative Capital “Wild Futures” Award. He is a Senior Affiliate of metaLAB at Harvard University, the Founder of the Conference for Research on Choreographic Interfaces and Host of the podcast, “Dances with Robots.” Sydney serves as the Director of the Brown Arts Institute, is an Associate Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, and was the first choreographer at Brown University to receive tenure. He resides in Providence, Rhode Island with his partner, their feral children and a supposedly hypoallergenic cat.

 

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May 21, 2025
Performance and Panel @
Stanford University

Performance of Kinematic/Kinesthetic at Stanford Live’s Bing Concert Hall (327 Lasuen St, Stanford) on Wednesday, May 21 (7:30 p.m. performance), including work by AXIS Dance Company and choreographer and roboticist Dr. Catie Cuan. There will be a post-performance panel discussion featuring Nadia Adame, Ben Levine, and Catie Cuan, moderated by Sydney Skybetter.