BREATHLESS:
CATIE AND THE ROBOT
BREATHLESS:
CATIE AND THE ROBOT
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CATIE AND THE ROBOT
Created by Catie Cuan and Ken Goldberg
Commissioned by Jacob's Pillow and NationalSawdust+, and sponsored by UC Berkeley's AUTOLab.
Breathless: Catie and the Robot is a captivating duet created by dancer/choreographer/engineer Catie Cuan and artist/researcher Ken Goldberg pairs Cuan with an industrial robot arm for a dance performance that appreciates the work performed by humans every day and contrasts the the beauty, strength, and frailty of the human body with the relentless precision of machinery.
Performed to a soundtrack including original compositions by Peter Van Straten, Breathless contrasts the beauty, strength, and frailty of the human body with the relentless precision of machinery. In their ambitious piece, Cuan and Goldberg address the historical, cultural, and emotional complexity of our collective fears about artificial intelligence and the future of human labor with the significant technical gaps that remain between science fiction and contemporary robotics.
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Highlights video (30 min)
Breathless: An 8-hour Performance Contrasting Human and Robot Expressiveness.
Catie Cuan, Tianshuang Qiu, Shreya Ganti, Ken Goldberg.
International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR). Long Beach, CA. Dec 2024.
Catie Cuan
Catie Cuan
Choreographer, dancer, and roboticist
Ken Goldberg
Ken Goldberg
Artist and professor of engineering at UC Berkeley
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