Hybrid Entanglements: a posthuman dramaturgy for human-robot relationships

This paper discusses our collaborative Machine Movement Lab project harnessing movement to bodily empathize with abstract machines. Bringing together creative robotics, choreographic strategies, and a posthuman dramaturgical frame, the project seeks to trouble our relationships with robots by exploring them as more-than-human entanglements. The paper discusses our transdisciplinary performance-making practice and underlying theoretical concepts and how they are mobilized through emerging diffraction patterns mapping out symbiotic relationships. An improvisational score involving dancers, robot costumes and robots performed in a gallery space aims to engage audiences with hybrid human-machine entanglements in embodied and empathic ways.