dancing with robots

Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking are deeply concerned about AI, but the tech and its ramifications are poorly understood by the public. That disconnect prompted Blanca Li and her dance company to create a choreography for eight dancers called Robot.

Produced with Softbank’s robotics division and Japanese artists Maywa Denki, it attempts to explore “the interactions between [humans and robots], in an absurd and poetic way.” …

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2018 Pacific Rims, Medellin, Colombia

2018 Pacific Rim championships Medellin, Colombia, the first time to be held in Latin America.

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Canadian FISU Team named

2017 Universiade (FISU) Games, Taipei City, TPE 19th – 30th August 2017

MEN’S ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS
  • René Cournoyer, Repentigny, QC – CÉGEP régional de Lanaudière
  • Joel Gagnon, Saskatoon, SK – University of Minnesota
  • Justin Karstadt, Mississauga, ON – University of Minnesota
  • Aaron Mah, Vancouver, BC – University of California (Berkley)
  • Sam Zakutney, Ottawa, ON – Penn State

Coaches:             

  • Tony Smith, Calgary, AB – National Team Director, GCG
WOMEN’S ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS
  • Ellie Black, Halifax, NS – Dalhousie University
  • Jessica Dowling, Dundas, ON – University of Guelph
  • Denelle Pedrick, Wilcox, SK – Central Michigan University
  • Brittany Rogers, Calgary, AB – University of Georgia
  • Briannah Tsang, Burnaby, BC – Penn State

Coaches:

  • David Kikuchi, Halifax, NS
  • Dorina Stan, Vancouver, BC
RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS
  • Cindy Huh, Vancouver BC – University of Toronto
  • Kaedyn Lashley, Winnipeg MB – University of Winnipeg

Coach/Team Lead

  • Shari Hebert, Winnipeg MB

Gymnastics Canada Announces 2017 Summer Universiade (FISU) Games Team members

Spanish Champion Ana Perez

1 Ana Perez Hytasa 53.450
2 Claudia Colom Xelska 50.967
3 Cintia Rodriguez Xelska 50.450
full results

Rubén López won the Men’s Championships. (82,684)

Justin Spring swinging Horse better than ever

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Australian Ninja Warrior is a HIT

Australian Ninja Warrior  … premiered on 9 July 2017.

Nine Network will bring back its smash hit program Australian Ninja Warrior for an expanded second season and possibly for some international specials, Media has learnt.  …

Its ratings, ranging from 1.68 million to 1.47 million over three nights, surprised everyone …

Australian

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Schwaiger wins record 6th National tumbling title

Jon Schwaiger of Calgary, AB – now training in Cambridge, ON, won a record sixth consecutive national title in senior men’s tumbling Sunday on the final day of the 2017 Canadian Championships in Trampoline gymnastics. …

The World Games team of Schwaiger, Sugrim, and Tamara O’Brien of Vancouver, BC will leave for Poland this upcoming Thursday and compete July 25th and 26th in Poznan, Poland. The World Games feature sports that are not contested at the Olympic Games. …

Gymnastics Canada 

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FIGymnastics 2.0 app

The app, available free for download from the iTunes and Google Play stores, has been enhanced to include sections on non-Olympic disciplines Acrobatic Gymnastics, Aerobic Gymnastics, Synchronised Trampoline, Tumbling and Double Mini-trampoline, as well as Gymnastics for All, the inclusive discipline that is the foundation of the sport.

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Amy Smith to Utah State

Amy Smith has been named the head gymnastics coach at Utah State University… Smith replaces Nadalie Walsh, who is the new gymnastics coach at Illinois.

“The combination of her experience and success, both as a student-athlete – winning a national championship at UCLA – and as a coach, whether it was at UCLA, Florida, Missouri or North Carolina, clearly in her progression as a coach, she is ready to take over a program of her own,” Hartwell said. …

Smith joins the Aggies after spending the past five seasons at North Carolina. She was promoted to associate head coach in 2014. In all, Smith brings 16 years of coaching experience with her to Utah State.

Amy Smith named Utah State head gymnastics coach