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Artist Kirsty Boyle with humanoid platform at Robobuilder head office and lab, Seoul South Korea

Robot technical plans to begin creative development of the project

Robobuilder company website – http://rqworld.com/eng/

Lhundrub Chime Gatsal Ling monastery website – http://www.cglmonastery.org/

I make sincere promise to the monks I cannot publicly show or distribute the video studies and documentation of cham dance. I am very sorry I am unable to share with you more detailed movement of the dance. The studies have been made to be shared privately between monasteries to help monks learn and practice the dance.

Despite the secrecy surrounding cham dance, I am in an extremely rare position to be given official permission to collaborate with the Tibetan community to create this work. This puts me in an important and urgent situation to produce this robot art work to help share and show people what cham is and preserve the culture.

Below annual cham dance performance in Dharamsala India I was invited to attend. I also make very detailed studies of the costumes and textiles during the event.