Dance Squared
Interactive dance performance
Information
DANCE² (Dance Squared) is an immersive performance that combines AI, robotics, and audience interactivity to craft a playful and provocative exploration of technology and human agency. Audiences use their smartphones to interact with the performance, influencing what happens next. This interaction facilitates an exploration of our collective ability to shape a future increasingly governed by autonomous technology.
Credits
Director: Jonathan David Martin
Choreographer: Adriane Fang
Interface Designer & Systems Architect: Bill Kules
Technical Lead: Huaishu Peng
Sound Designer: Samuel Crawford
Media and Lighting Designer: Tim Kelly
Costume Designer: Tori Niemic
Scenic Designer: Margarita Syrocheva
Dancer: Patricia Mullaney-Loss
Touring Technical Supervisor: Emily Pan
Robot & UI Engineer: Anup Sathya Kumar
Robot Engineers: Jiasheng Li, Dannuo Li
AI and Media Consultants: Safety Third
Choreo & Robotics Assistant: Julie Zalalutdinov
Original Lighting Design by: Scott Monin
Media and Systems Contributor: Mark Williams
Artist / Studio biography
Duck, Duck, Robot is Choreographer Adriane Fang and Director Jonathan David Martin. They create immersive, interactive performances at the crossroads of science, technology, and the body. Their work combines Fang's rigorous, research-driven choreographic practice — rooted in biomechanics, interdisciplinary science, and a deep belief in the intelligence of the body — with Martin's expertise in narrative and experience design across theater, virtual reality, and emerging media. Together, they build work that is simultaneously artistically ambitious and radically accessible.