How Batteries Move: Open Studio
College of the Arts
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School of Theatre + Dance
Venue
Nadine McGuire Theatre and Dance Pavilion
Address
1800 McCarty Dr
Gainesville, Florida 32603
Room
Studio G-006
August 6 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Free
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. |