Abstract
This article investigates the appearance of robots on stage in contemporary performance. As a convincing demonstration of the relevance of robots – as artefact, concept and metaphor – we take Blanca Li’s 2013 dance performance Robot! as our starting point. We have distilled five dimensions
Highlights
25 minutes into the contemporary dance performance Robot ! the show’s protagonist – a 58 cm tall, plastic robot of the label Nao – is introduced as it teams up with a male, human dancer in a passionate Pasde-deux
While this variety of appearances all refer to some notion of a robot, they differ with regard to their robotic gestalt and their grade of autonomy, pointing
Inspired by Blanca Li’s Robot !, this article investigates the appearance of robots on stage in contemporary performance
Summary
25 minutes into the contemporary dance performance Robot ! the show’s protagonist – a 58 cm tall, plastic robot of the label Nao – is introduced as it teams up with a male, human dancer in a passionate Pasde-deux. Complementing what we might coin the “main story” about a Nao robot learning to dance, various other types of robotic appearance are on stage during the show, including robot vacuum cleaners, remote controlled moving vehicles, mechanical musicians and humans dressed as cartoon robots While this variety of appearances all refer to some notion of a robot, they differ with regard to their robotic gestalt and their grade of autonomy, pointing. We put forward a many-dimensional matrix and metaphorical vector-space in which each point indicates one particular form of appearance of the notion of “a robot” These dimensions are intended to represent essential, identifiable properties which are more or less orthogonal and all together span a rich and complete space of “robotic” performative opportunities.
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