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  EVENTS

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Residency

Dance Poem Revolution

CultureHub
47 Great Jones Street
3rd Floor
New York, NY 10012

January 9, 2026
7pm ET, Performance
January 10, 2026
11am–5pm ET, Installation Open
Suggested Donation: $10

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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.

Melanie Hoff’s residency will culminate in a performance-lecture grounded in dance in collaboration with Ime Soul that reflects on the project’s themes, exploring how critical theory, joy, and collective movement function as forms of communal storytelling. Dance Poem Revolution will also 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.

January 9, 2026
7pm ET: Performance-lecture by Melanie Hoff with collaborator Ime Soul
January 10, 2026
11am–5pm ET: Installation open, all ages welcome!

This project is supported within the CultureHub Residency program.

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Melanie Hoff is an artist, organizer, and technologist working within spaces of hacking and performance. Their work cultivates spaces of learning and collective reflection grounded in poetry and reconciliation for how we choose to live and what choices have been made for us. At the core of their practice is an interrogation of intersecting systems of classification and power and a dedication to acts of repair and reimagining. Melanie teaches about art, sex, technology, design, and social cybernetics at Harvard, NYU, and Yale. Their work has been exhibited at the New Museum, Queens Museum, Bronx Museum, and elsewhere. They co-direct Hex House, an artist's space they co-founded in Brooklyn, and formerly co-directed the School for Poetic Computation where they can often be found teaching from the edges of their research and experimentation.

Ime Soul (fka Immanuel J.) is a live arts practitioner working on ephemeral installations, moving images, and performance. In line with thinkers Audre Lorde and Christina Sharpe amongst others, Ime Soul presents biomythological work exploring abjection, sexuality, and how language fails Black bodies' articulation of pain and trauma. Their performances misuse formal qualities of Black church. Often a combination of extended duration and high intensity, Ime Soul uses fatigue as a vehicle to open up a sensorial and reflective space. Like church, witness and participation makes their work complete. Ime Soul received an undergraduate degree in Fine Art and American and Indigenous studies at Bard College (2022), as well as a graduate degree from the Center for Human Rights and the Arts (2024). Their work has been shown across New York State at spaces ranging from fine art galleries to public interruptions.

Image courtesy of Bronx Museum