Machiko Sato is a dancer and post-doctoral researcher at Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan. Her research focuses on theatrical dance and dance notation studies mainly in the 19-20^th century. Since 2018, she has been involved in conserving and restoring dance in the e-tangible heritage form as collaborative research with information science technology and robotics. She is the author of several articles, including “The Concept of ‘Plastique’ in Dance at the Beginning of the 20^th Century,” in The Journal of Japanese Society for Theatre Research (2021); “Digital Reconstruction of Ballet from Dance Scores written in Stepanov’s Music Note System,” in IPSJ SIG Technical Report (2021); “Dancing Robots: An Interview with Katsu Ikeuchi and Machiko Sato.” DNB Library News (2021).