• Sydney Skybetter

    FOUNDER

    Sydney Skybetter is a choreographer. Hailed by the Financial Times as “one of the world’s foremost thinkers on dance and emerging technologies,” his work has been performed at The Kennedy Center and Jacob’s Pillow. He has lectured at SXSW, Yale, and Mozilla and consulted for The National Ballet of Canada, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and Hasbro. His work has been supported by The Sloan Foundation, The Doris Duke Foundation and a Creative Capital "Wild Futures" Award. He is the founder of CRCI and Dances with Robots, and serves as the Director of the Brown Arts Institute.

  • Ariane Michaud

    EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

    Ariane Michaud is a producer dedicated to cultivating arts-focused communities and promoting social justice. Her passion for dance has led her to roles with DANCE NOW NYC, JUNTOS Collective, and as North American Tour Manager for Wang Ramirez. As a consultant, she provides strategic planning, production, and project management for individuals and nonprofits. Since becoming Executive Producer of CRCI in 2019, she has led large-scale conferences and projects, including co-hosting Dances with Robots. In 2024, Ariane founded Consciously Produced, a company specializing in creative productions that foster connection and community.

  • Kate Gow

    CREATIVE PRODUCER

    Kate Gow is a dancer, technologist, and poet who delights in storytelling, ritual, and process. She is the Creative Producer and archivist at CRCI, a professional services consultant at Quadient, and an educator at the Linden Hall School for Girls. Her literary work has been published in HAD, F(r)iction Literary Magazine, and Psaltery and Lyre, among others. Kate graduated as valedictorian with a BFA in Contemporary Dance from The Boston Conservatory with the conservatory’s first degree in Dance & Technology, centering artistic intelligence across interdisciplinary fields. She lives in Pennsylvania and is looking for good karaoke song recommendations, if you have any.

Past Contributors

Kevin Clark, Consulting Producer (2016-2022)

Kevin Clark builds mission-driven technology. As a delivery lead at VMware Tanzu Labs and Tanzu Act he leads a team of product managers consulting in the social impact, government, and higher education sectors. Before joining Labs, Kevin consulted on technology and program design with philanthropy organizations including Stanford’s Digital Civil Society Lab, New Music USA, Creative Capital, and the MAP Fund. Active as a composer, Kevin’s theatrical works have drawn on the lives of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Hildegard of Bingen, Tennyson’s poem Ulysses, and the twitter bot Census Americans.

Madeline Morningstar, Producer & Director of Curriculum (2020-2022)

Madeline Morningstar is a consultant, producer, and curator with a critical background in Performance Studies from Brown University (BA). She has consulted across the cultural and technology sectors for companies such as Miko Robotics, the Museum of Dance, and Heidi Latsky Dance. She most recently worked with The Conference for Research on Choreographic Interfaces as a Programming Associate and Director of Curriculum, designing courses such as “Choreorobotics 0101” which featured Boston Dynamics’ Spot robots. https://www.madelinemorningstar.com/

Martin Nuñez-Bonilla, Social Media Strategy & Design (2021-2022)

Martin Nuñez-Bonilla is an Afro-Latino visual artist & public speaker based in New York City with a passion for masculinity reform, BIPOC equality, fundraising, & vulnerability. He currently works with nonprofit organizations, causes, events, & individuals  on their visual materials & communications. https://www.mnbnyc.com/

Kiri Miller, Consulting Producer (2016-2020)

Kiri Miller is Professor of American Studies and Music (Ethnomusicology) at Brown. Her work focuses on participatory culture, popular music, interactive digital media, and virtual/visceral performance practices. Her latest book, Playable Bodies: Dance Games and Intimate Media (Oxford, 2017), investigates how dance video games teach choreography, remediate popular music, invite experimentation with gendered and racialized movement styles, and stage domestic surveillance as intimate recognition. Her previous monographs are Playing Along: Digital Games, YouTube, and Virtual Performance (Oxford, 2012) and Traveling Home: Sacred Harp Singing and American Pluralism (Illinois, 2008).