Dance Poem Revolution
January 9-10, 2026
Presented by CultureHub
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.
In collaboration with Ime Soul, Melanie Hoff’s performance-lecture explored how critical theory, joy, and collective movement function as forms of communal storytelling. Dance Poem Revolution invited visitors to step in, play, and co-create poetry drawn from revolutionary texts, songs, and local histories.
This project was supported within the CultureHub Residency program.