Dance Poem Revolution

Dance Poem Revolution is an interactive installation inspired by Dance Dance Revolution, where participants generate poems through their movements using a custom-built dance interface. As participants dance, the system responds by generating unique poems, which visitors can take home as a record of their embodied experience of the work. Materials generated through conversations with the public about personal revolutions—both seismic and ordinary—are woven back into the installation, allowing the work to evolve in dialogue with the people and places it encounters.

The residency will culminate in a performance-lecture by Resident Artist Melanie Hoff grounded in dance that reflects on the project’s themes, exploring how critical theory, joy, and collective movement function as forms of communal storytelling. The installation will allso be open all day on Saturday, January 10th, inviting visitors to step in, play, and co-create poetry drawn from revolutionary texts, songs, and local histories.

This project is supported within the CultureHub Residency program.