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Dear colleagues,

Here is a kind reminder for the coming Laban webinar on May 7.

Seminar 9: Choreographic Abstractions for Embodied Design of Robotic Behavior

Amy LaViers, PhD, CMA

8:30-9:30am (New York time), 12:30-13:30 GMT, May 7, 2018

To register online https://www.eventbrite.com/e/webinar-series-laban-movement-studies-history-applications-frontiers-tickets-39388832057

How do you get a robot to move like a disco dancer?  Or like a cheerleader?  Or like a specific person?  These acts would require a quantitative understanding of distinct movement behaviors and pose new problems for the high-level control of robots.  However, before such concepts can be quantified, a qualitative description must exist.  It’s important for roboticists, thus, to be able to qualitatively describe motion profiles of desire.  In the Robotics, Automation, and Dance (RAD) Lab, this is achieved through close study of choreographic practices and taxonomies, like the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System (LBMS).  This talk will discuss projects in the RAD Lab and how LBMS has influenced them.  In particular, three movement exercises from the Basic 6, thigh lift, forward pelvic shift, and lateral pelvic shift, will be reviewed in the context of the development of a novel bipedal robot walker.  Secondly, the relationship between Space and Body will be discussed within a teleloperational context.  Participants will be invited to move through simple relevant exercises and see results from research in the RAD Lab in parallel.

About the presenter:

Amy LaViers is an assistant professor in Mechanical Science and Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and director of the Robotics, Automation, and Dance (RAD) Lab where she develops robotic algorithms inspired by movement and dance theory.  She is the recipient of a 2015 DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA).  She has worked in the areas of advanced manufacturing, through an industry-university consortium, the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing (CCAM), defense, and healthcare, and forged interdisciplinary ties with the UVA and UIUC Dance Programs and the Laban/Bartenieff Institute for Movement Studies, where she completed CMA in 2016. She completed her Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering at Georgia Tech. Her research began at Princeton University where she earned a certificate in dance and a degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering. 

Hope to see you on May 7 when the live session takes place. There will be recordings available afterwards for those who miss the live session.


Warm regards,


Tony Zhou

PhD, CMA (Certified Movement Analyst)

Executive Editor, Founder

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