The exploration of evolution took many forms: from beautiful, lyric pair work by the 8 dancers, to humanised duets between man and robot, to a full-on cabaret-style solo by robot avec sparkly feather boa, the show flitted between the sublime and the absurd.
Photo: J.M. Gourreau
This was all to the audio backdrop of mechanised musical instruments, triggered into action by human movement.
Whilst the show reinforced the potential of the technological, the contrast between the robotic movements of the NAOs (the humanoid robots) and the human strength and beauty the dancers evinced to me served as a reminder that if man and machine become treated as interchangeable, something unique to man will be lost. Posthumanist essay OVER. My 12c supervisor would be proud.
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