Approach
Our mission is to help our audiences feel their lives.
Performance, Art, and Science
Born out of the collision of cultural influences found only in the San Francisco Bay Area, Capacitor aims to be the embodiment of smart design, creative science, discreet technology, wild nature, and honest expression. We aspire to unprecedented excellence rooted in inquiry, collaboration, and the integration of body and mind.
Collaborative Process
In the spirit of scientific inquiry, Capacitor uses a laboratory-style creative process, called Capacitor Lab. For each new work, we assemble a cross-disciplinary team of the world's leading artists and scientists to explore a specific concept, find common threads, and create a shared vocabulary. From this collaboration, a performance is born. This process is at the core of who we are as a company, taking us and our audiences to unexpected, original places.
Jodi Lomask’s Latest Mission
My work is not specific to dance, choreography, or sculpture, even though it moves through all of those forms. More broadly, I am interested in designing experiences that support creative flow, deepen connection to the self, and help people sense their place in the world.
I am drawn to research because it can reveal how different forms of movement, attention, and embodiment affect states of mind and being. I see my role as bringing a deep experiential perspective on movement’s impact on brain states, so that researchers might identify new questions worth studying.
I am increasingly interested in designing what I think of as behavioral architectures and movement scores, and vocabularies: structured experiences that can shift how the brain operates, how our lives feel, and how people connect with themselves and others.
“Of course, Capacitor isn’t for everyone. Pretentious dance connoisseurs who eschew companies like Cirque de Soleil and Blue Man Group on the grounds that they aim to please might find the flaming helmets and cosmonaut courtships of Within Outer Spaces a tad too dazzling to qualify as high art. Fire and sex always smack of spectacle. To them, Capacitor replies with even more spectacle, fire, and sex. In an age when every sophisticate is trying his hardest to glean bits of meaning from artists who aspire to make a mockery of truth, beauty, and love, in an age of Andy Warhol fanatics and Don Delillo imitators, over-the-top exhibitionism has rightly become a vehicle for such a movement. Framing this exhibitionism within the post-postmodern confines of a relevant question should be the aim of any performing arts company working today. By fusing into coherence incoherent spectacle and sensible science, Capacitor has warped light-years ahead of the game. ‘Within Outer Spaces’ should be praised to the stars.”