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Dancing with Black Holes

Dancing with Black Holes

An Immersive Journey into the Threshold of the Cosmos Activated By Music and Dance
Peter Chu & Matthew Jamal
April 18th, 2026, 4:00PM & 7:00PM
BRIC Arts Studio
647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY 11217
MAXlive and the MAXmachina laboratory program are supported in part by the Simons Foundation, 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. Developed with residency support from the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM).

Dancing with Black Holes is an immersive journey at the threshold of a black hold, where complex astrophysical data is rendered into a bone-deep human experience. Inspired by the behavior of gravitational waves emitted billions of years ago, the work explores a point of no return -the event horizon of a black hole – a place where the laws of physics break down and kinesis takes over. The known world ends and a different kind of truth begins

The performance enlivened by the virtuosic choreography of Peter Chu, the live, resonant score of Matthew Jamal, and the intricate sound design of Nick Ryan. Conceived by Kay Matschullat and 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 uncanny, the work traces a journey toward the center of a mystery older than time.

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