One tool dancing with another: Huang Yi & KUKA - CriticalDance

The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD September 25, 2015 Carmel Morgan In our increasingly mechanized society, it should be no surprise that choreograph…

Huang Yi and KUKA in Huang Yi & KUKA Photo Jacob Blickenstaff The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD September 25, 2015 Carmel Morgan In our increasingly mechanized society, it should be no surprise that choreographers have looked to machines for creative inspiration. More surprising perhaps is that they are using machines as featured dancers. In Dance of the Cranes , part of this summer’s DC’s Capital Fringe Festival, Brandon Vickerd choreographed high-rise construction cranes set to music, the pair moving in synchrony, turning in opposite dir

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