A short, five-minute documentary tells the story of what happens when ballet dancers work with robotics to capture the moving beauty of dance.

Titled, simply, "Ballet Meets Robotics," the film experiment follows San Francisco Ballet principal dancers Maria Kochetkova and Joan Boada as they dance the choreography of a Yuri Possokhov piece while a robotic camera traces their leaps and lifts.

Director Tarik Abdel-Gawad used a motion capture studio to complete the work, outlining the dancers' movements with sensor-equipped body suits and synching that data with the tiny "robot."