College Park, MD

DANCExDANCE

Will humans and their technology live happily ever after? You decide.

DANCExDANCE Immersive Event - Main Image

DANCE² is a dance installation about human-robot interaction and our collective feelings about technology’s influence on the future. Audiences will use their smartphones to interact with the performance, influencing the choreography of the human and robotic dancers. Through their choices, we will explore the question of whether emerging technology is bringing us closer together or pulling us farther apart. This event is part of the University of Maryland's Moving with Screens + Machines: A Symposium on Embodied Practices and Technology.

Audience Role

The audience will determine the choreography and design elements depicted in the production based on their answers to a series of questions. These questions will be posed to them via their smartphones throughout the performance.

Ages: All ages

Content Advisories

Flashing lights

Interaction Advisories

Light (business/acquaintance) contact

Mobility Advisories

Event is wheelchair accessible
Extended standing

About Smoke & Mirrors Collaborative

Smoke & Mirrors Collaborative is a nonprofit production company that creates original works for theater and the web that combine socially relevant themes with an ambitious, multi-disciplinary approach to storytelling. Our intent is to give voice to unfamiliar and underrepresented stories in the most relatable, entertaining, and idiosyncratic way possible while challenging our audience's assumptions about the world around them. We have produced theater Off-Broadway, festivals, internationally, and media for the web. Our work is created through extensive research and partnerships with our community, artists of all mediums and backgrounds, and other nonprofit advocacy institutions.