Dancing With Black Holes

An Immersive Journey into the Threshold of the Cosmos Activated By Music and Dance

At the event horizon, the known world ends and a different kind of truth begins. Dancing with Black Holes is an immersive descent into the threshold of the cosmos, where complex astrophysical data is rendered into a bone-deep human experience. Inspired by the behavior of light and matter emitted billions of years ago, the work explores a point of no return—a place where the laws of physics break down and kinesis takes over.

The performance moves through the virtuosic choreography of Peter Chu, the live, resonant score of Matthew Jamal, and the intricate sound design of Nick Ryan. Guided by the research of scientific collaborator Max Isi, the artists contemplate what happens to energy when it is transformed by forces beyond human cognition. The experience feels like the horizon itself: precise in its mathematics, yet wild in its refusal to be contained. Vast, perhaps a little overwhelming, the work traces a journey toward the center of a mystery older than time.

Developed with residency support from the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM).

MAX is supported in part by the Simons Foundation International and administered by the Simons Foundation’s Science, Society & Culture division.

MAXlive and the MAXmachina laboratory program are supported in part the Ettinger foundation, public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, with additional support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation/EST, and the generous support of our individual donors. MAXmachina.

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