Sydney Skybetter

Hailed by Dance Magazine as “one of the most influential people in dance today,” Sydney Skybetter is a choreographer whose work has been performed at venues such as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Boston Center for the Arts, Jacob’s Pillow, and the Joyce Theater. He has consulted on issues of cultural change and technology for the National Ballet of Canada, the Jerome Robbins Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and New York University.

A sought-after speaker, he lectures on everything from dance history to cultural futurism, most recently at Harvard University, South by Southwest Interactive, and TEDx. He is a public humanities fellow and lecturer at Brown University, where he researches the problematics of human computer interfaces and mixed reality systems. He is the founder of the Conference for Research on Choreographic Interfaces (CRCI), which convenes ethnographers, anthropologists, speculative designers, and performing artists to discuss the choreography of the Internet of Things.

He produces shows at Joe’s Pub, SteelStacks, and OBERON with Dance Now NYC; has served as a grant panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts; and is the winner of a RISCA Fellowship in Choreography from the State of Rhode Island. He received his Master of Fine Arts in Choreography from New York University.