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Future Figures: Dance and Emerging Technologies

At Jameson Family Lobby, Doris Duke Theatre: Jul 12

Event Dates
Saturday, Jul 12

11:15 AM

About

FUTURE FIGURES: Dance and Emerging Technologies

Saturday, July 12, 2025, 11:15am-3:30pm | Jameson Family Lobby, Doris Duke Theatre

Catalyzed by curiosity around the ways that technology is reshaping our cultural landscape, FUTURE FIGURES: Dance and Emerging Technologies offers a series of artist talks aiming to cultivate a sense of wonder and possibility surrounding the use of new technology to advance the field of dance, and provide more access for all.

From 11:15am to 5pm, preeminent choreographers working at the intersection of dance and technology will gather in the Jameson Family Lobby for this special summit which will be hosted by Jacob’s Pillow’s Digital Futures Think Tank: Brian Brooks, Catie Cuan, Grisha Coleman, Katherine Helen Fisher Shamel Pitts and Andrew Schneider and facilitated by Sydney Skybetter, Faculty Director at Brown University’s Art Institute.

Full Schedule of Artist Conversations

Artist Conversation #1
11:15am – 12pm
Introduction to the Day: Sydney Skybetter & Onassis ONX
Talk: Clémence DeBaig and Livia Massarelli, Unwired Dance Theatre

Artist Conversation #2
1 – 1:45pm
Lightning Talk: Kate Ladenheim
Talk: Alice Sheppard and Laurel Lawson, Kinetic Light

Artist Conversation #3
1:50 – 2:35pm
Lightning Talk: LaJuné McMillian
Talk: Alexander Whitley

Artist Conversation #4
2:45 – 3:30pm
Lightning Talk: d. Sabela Grimes
Talk: Memo Akten and Katie Peyton Hofstedter

FUTURE FIGURES is presented in partnership with Onassis ONX, and made possible in part with special underwriting support provided by the Doris Duke Foundation, YoungArts, and the Onassis Foundation.