Action Potential

2023
Performance at Gallery 400
University of Illinois at Chicago
Choreographing collaborators: Claire Molla + Courtney Mackedanz

Action Potential takes its title from a neurological process I find poetic. Neurons transmit electrical signals in response to stimuli, creating increasingly complex systems of perception and response. It’s no wonder moving is a form of thinking.

In this performance work, I explored the body as part of an ongoing cycle of feedback, adaptation, and collective awareness. Working within open-ended structures influenced by chance operations and improvisation, participants shaped the performance in real time through their interactions and presence. Each iteration became a shared, evolving system of listening and responsiveness. The work reflects on my broader interest in attunement, asking how collective presence and embodied listening might create more connected and adaptable ways of relating to one another.