How Batteries Move: Open Studio

"How Batteries Move: Open Studio" is a free, informal event including lecture-demonstration style performances, participatory audience activities, and a moderated Talkback. Led by UF faculty from the School of Theatre + Dance – Xan Burley and Alex Springer – in collaboration with NSF-funded materials scientist Dr. Megan Butala, this interdisciplinary research project integrates choreography, dance improvisation, and performance with materials science research on lithium-ion batteries.
Open Studio is the culmination of a weeklong workshop – How Batteries Move: Dance Labs – in which 15 student and community dancers – directed by Burley, Springer, and Butala – collaboratively developed an original dance work synthesizing artistic and scientific inquiry.
Audience members can expect to engage in various embodied activities developed during rehearsals, view the finished dance work, and discuss the project during a Talkback moderated by Dr. Elif Akçalı, Associate Professor and Cottmeyer Family Innovative Frontiers Fellow, UF Industrial and Systems Engineering.

Sponsored in part by the College of the Arts Creative B Summer Program in partnership with the Office of the Provost.