Brown Arts Institute
The Ruckus Sessions
Spring 2026 – Ongoing
VISIONARY CONVERSATIONS | BROWN 2026
Live, candid conversations with artists, researchers, and cultural leaders examining the rapidly evolving landscape of contemporary culture.
The Ruckus Sessions
Spring 2026 – Ongoing
VISIONARY CONVERSATIONS | BROWN 2026
Live, candid conversations with artists, researchers, and cultural leaders examining the rapidly evolving landscape of contemporary culture.
READY, SET, RUCKUS!
Join BAI Director Sydney Skybetter for live, candid conversations where visionary artists, researchers, and cultural leaders share their creative practices, discuss the future of arts scholarship, and examine the rapidly evolving landscape of contemporary culture.
Spring 2026 Ruckus Sessions to be announced soon!
Past Ruckus Sessions
About Sydney Skybetter
Sydney Skybetter is a choreographer. Hailed by the Financial Times as “One of the world’s foremost thinkers on the intersection of dance and emerging technologies,” Sydney’s choreography has been performed at such venues as The Kennedy Center and Jacob’s Pillow. He has lectured at SXSW, Yale, Mozilla and the Boston Dynamics AI Institute, and consulted for The National Ballet of Canada, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Hasbro, and The University of Southern California, among others. His work has been supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and a Creative Capital “Wild Futures” Award. He is a Senior Affiliate of metaLAB at Harvard University, a frequent contributor to WIRED and Dance Magazine, the Founder of the Conference for Research on Choreographic Interfaces and Host of the podcast, “Dances with Robots.” Sydney serves as the Director of the Brown Arts Institute, is an Associate Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, and was the first choreographer at Brown University to receive tenure.
This event is part of Brown 2026, a campus-wide initiative to observe the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States to demonstrate the important role of research and teaching universities in fostering open and democratic societies. Learn more: brown2026democracy.brown.edu.