Workshop ‘Prompts & Theater’

On Friday 6 February, Dramaturgy for Devices and Robotstories | Expanding Narratives will be organizing a collaborative exploration of Prompts & Theater. With the advent of LLMs, the concept of “prompt” has entered the HRI vocabulary. However, in the theater domain, formulas and systems resembling what a prompt might be for AI have been in use for much longer. For example, Forsythe’s Improvisation technologies or Laban’s movement notation. The concept of “prompt” also took on meaning in other domains. In this meeting, we want to introduce and explore these crossovers and perspectives, after which we can identify potential next steps.

We will be joined by two special guests: Dr. Efrosini Protopapa, a London-based choreographer and academic whose work focuses on experimental and conceptual practices across dance, theatre, dramaturgy, and performance, and Nuno Atalaia, theatre director and researcher, who recently defended his PhD thesis on theatre and digital voice assistants.

This workshop is by invitation only.