The Dancing Brain

Culture
Written By Emma Crouch
Two women and a boy stand next to each other, the boy wears a cap covered with electrodes.

Photo by Tom Harrison

Suba Subramaniam and Dr Bani Anvari: UCL Performing Place

As part of UCL’s Performing Place programme, Suba Subramaniam, Artistic Director of dance company Akādemi and Dr Bani Anvari, collaborated on The Dancing Brain, a project that sought to improve social interaction through mind-controlled virtual robots and combined hand gestures and rhythm. The project aimed to encourage young students into STEM, and empower people with dementia to connect with their peers by transposing/translating /transcribing a message from the mind of one participant to the peers through movement.

Performing Place, produced by Sylvia Kluczewski, brought together live performance artists, Camden communities and researchers in the co-creation of live performance. It is part of the Performance Lab series, where artists, researchers and students explore how live performance can animate research – and how research can inspire art.

Emma Crouch
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