Can We Live With Robots?
Internationally-acclaimed dancer and choreographer Akram Khan has spent his career researching the big stories of our time and distilling them into dance. In this unique project for Channel 4, he is exploring the impact robots and AI are having right now on human relationships - and meets the cutting-edge robots which are set to infiltrate our futures. Following his encounters with these incredible machines, he interrogates his own reactions to them and improvises ideas to produce an exhilarating new piece of dance that captures and anticipates a future of man and machine's coexistence.
Internationally-acclaimed dancer and choreographer Akram Khan has spent his career researching the big stories of our time and distilling them into dance. In this unique project for Channel 4, he is exploring the impact robots and AI are having right now on human relationships - and meets the cutting-edge robots which are set to infiltrate our futures. Following his encounters with these incredible machines, he interrogates his own reactions to them and improvises ideas to produce an exhilarating new piece of dance that captures and anticipates a future of man and machine's coexistence.
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