Capacitor, San Francisco’s interdisciplinary dance company, has become renowned for their conceptually-rich and bound-breaking performances. Capacitor artists collaborate with members of the scientific community to create mind-expanding, heart-gripping live performance.
From the movement of the human diaphragm to the story of evolution, from the behavior of electricity to genetic manipulation, from the birth of the moon to the cycles of digestion - natural and synthetic processes form the basis for Capacitor’s study of performance. Obsessed with the mechanics of the human body as well as machines that propel the body through space, Capacitor artists have become masters of rigging systems, designers of wearable sculpture couture, and engineers of large-scale props designed to stretch the limits of physical poetry.
Capacitor encourages contact with scientific concepts in ways which allow
audiences to see patterns and relationships inherent in nature and the cosmos.
Through performance, Capacitor personalizes large, abstract concepts and in
doing so, transcends cultural barriers - widening the scope of basic human
experience.
Capacitor strives to engage audiences in dialogues that inspire self-reflection.
Capturing images that exist in the tension between the limited, fleshy world
of the body, and the limitless, ethereal world of the imagination, Capacitor
Artistic Director Jodi Lomask, reveals her oeurve: these contrasts are the
base of human experience. "We comprehend limits while imagining limitlessness,
understand mortality while feeling eternity."
