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Huang Yi & KUKA–Students enjoyed excerpts of the dance repertoire performed by the company’s
talented human and robotic dancers and took part in an in-depth Q&A with choreographer and inventor
Huang Yi. Through the experience, students learned about the intriguing creative process of
programming an industrial robot to dance!
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La Santa Cecilia–The Grammy Award–winning ensemble brought hundreds of students
to their feet while learning about Latin rhythms and instruments. The students tried cumbia,
salsa, cha-cha, and bachata dance moves across the Price Center West Ballroom floor.
“Thank you for letting us come to your school. I loved the dance!
I learned that with new technology comes new innovation.”
—Porter Elementary School Student
MASTER CLASSES for UC San Diego theater and dance students and local dancers from transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project with visiting dance companies. •
UC San Diego Theatre & Dance Department Choreographer – Kota Yamazaki took advanced contemporary dance students
through a series of exercises to develop their ability to improvise movement. Choreographer Idan Cohen exposed students to
the differences in contemporary dance culture in the United States and Israel.
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transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project – Kota Yamazaki taught the group of high school students about the foundations of butoh
dance and the power of imagination when expressing oneself through movement. Idan Cohen talked with students about
his successful career in dance and had them learn and perform choreography from his most recent works.
DYNAMIC WORKSHOPS, PANELS, AND DEMONSTRATIONS with artists from around the globe. • Flow Control & Coordinated Robotics Lab Class with Huang Yi – Choreographer and
inventor Huang Yi visited Professor Thomas Bewley’s Flow Control & Coordinated
Robotics course to discuss the technical and logistical aspects of programming a KUKA robot to dance. Yi and the students then brainstormed the possibilities for
integrating more robotics into dance performances in the future and what
technological advances would need to happen to be able to do so.
• What Happened Miss Simone? Panel Discussion– In partnership with the Thurgood Marshall Film Minor Program and in honor of Black History Month, Film Curator Rebecca Webb moderated a prescreening conversation about race, identity, activism and modern society with Director Liz Garbus and UC San Diego faculty members David Borgo and Zeinabu Davis. “The screening of What Happened, Miss Simone? provided a rare and invaluable space for students, community members and UC San Diego faculty and staff to converse about important and complicated topics such as gender, race, mental health, and domestic violence. Thank you ArtPower for creating such a vital and vibrant space for critical dialogues.” —Tara-Lynne, UC San Diego MFA candidate