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Walking is a fall that keeps getting interrupted: the centre of mass rides over the stance foot, leaves the base of support (gold), and the next leg arrives to catch it. A dancer takes the same fall further out and is caught later, on the beat. Proportions illustrative.

Teach a robot to dance and it will learn to walk among us

philosophy · 11 Oct 2026

Dance is the hardest thing a body does, explosive, off-balance, improvised, on time, in a room full of other people, which is exactly why it is the motion a machine should learn from if it is ever going to move among us without being a hazard or a joke.

What each art leaves behind when the evening ends: an object, a copy, a score, a memory. The last column is one real frame of a take, 33 joints in metres at the speed it happened. Notation for dance, finally.

Immortalizing movement

philosophy · 3 Oct 2026

Music worked out how to outlive its performances five hundred years ago and dance never quite did. A video keeps the pixels; a skeleton keeps the movement, and the movement is the part worth keeping.