Not yet, anyway. This video took a lot of work: The makers talk (in an IEEE Spectrum interview) about how they went about making it: How Boston Dynamics Taught Its Robots to Dance Aaron Saunders, Boston Dynamics’ VP of Engineering, tells us where Atlas got its moves from …Strictly speaking, the stuff going on in […]
Tag: dance
Derridian deconstruction of the Futterwacken Dance [new study]
Itsnaini Lailiyah Ananda of Airlangga University, Surabaya, East Java, presents (what is believed to be) the first Deconstruction of scene of Futterwacken Dance in Alice in Wonderland movie by Tim Burton in the latest issue of the university’s arts journal Terob, Vol XI, Apr. 2019. “Derridian structure of thinking explain the latent meaning behind non-empty texts […]
Dance of the Dung Beetles: A book for all humans to savor
Ig Nobel Prize winner Marcus Byrne has a new book called Dance of the Dung Beetles. It can please and enlighten anyone—human or beetle or both (Beatle)—who ever has contact with with dance, dung, life, or the universe. The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize for biology and astronomy (a rare double-category win!) was awarded to Marie […]
Does leg length play a determinative role for success in ballet? [research study]
A unique 2009 research project quantified (for the first time) the changes in elevation angles of ballet dancers’ legs between 1946 and 2004. Now a new study has examined (again for the first time) leg-length in relation to selected ballet performance indicators. “The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationships between leg […]
