Dance Poem Revolution
CultureHub
47 Great Jones Street
3rd Floor
New York, NY 10012
January 9, 2026
7pm ET, Performance
January 10, 2026
11am–6pm ET, Installation Open
Suggested Donation: $10
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 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
January 10, 2026
11am–6pm ET: Installation open, all ages welcome!
This project is supported within the CultureHub Residency program.