JODI LOMASK
Artistic Director

Jodi Lomask is a choreographer, sculptor, director, and founder of Capacitor, the San Francisco–based arts company she launched in 1997. Her work explores the intersection of science, environmentalism, and new technology through dance, sound, and motion sculpture. She designs motion sculptures that are only complete when activated by the human body, creating performances and environments that allow audiences to experience ideas physically.

With Capacitor, Lomask has created evening-length works inspired by the deep Earth and ocean, forest ecology, flower reproduction, outer space, early childhood, and creativity in the brain. Her projects are developed through collaboration with scientists, engineers, designers, dancers, circus artists, and composers, and she has toured internationally presenting this work. She has been commissioned to create original works for Apple, NASA, TED, SFO, the Discovery Channel, the California Academy of Sciences, and the Salvadorian Olympic Gymnastics Team. Lomask created for Disney's World Showcase and Future World and consulted for IDEO. She appeared in National Geographic's 'Wild Chronicles' with canopy tree ecologist Dr. Nalini Nadkarni. She created the launch event for the Volvo S60 in Malaysia, inspired a new line of activewear with Athleta, and celebrated the mapping of the human genome with Celera. She directed a VR180 stereoscopic immersive film with Adobe that was produced by the SF Dance Film Festival.

Lomask later founded Creative Journey (creativejourney.us), expanding her practice into guided experiences, workshops, and creative-process work focused on embodied intelligence, interdisciplinary collaboration, and personal transformation. She has also spoken widely about creative problem-solving and the generative exchange between artists and scientists.

She has held residencies at UCSF Neuroscape, the Kennedy Center, Yaddo, Djerassi, CounterPulse, The Lab SF, and SHACK15, and is the recipient of an Isadora Duncan Award for Sustained Achievement. Her work has been covered by Nature, Wired, NPR, Smithsonian Magazine, Dance Magazine, and The New York Times, among other outlets. She is a member of the NSF-funded project ACCELNET-Building Reliable Advances and Innovation in Neurotechnologies.

Across her work, Lomask approaches performance and installation as ways of reorganizing perception, inviting people to sense their bodies, minds, and nature in new ways.

Awards

• Unlikely Collaborators, SPARK 2025

• San Francisco Lawyers for the Arts 2024

• The Bernard Osher Foundation 2023

• New England Foundation for the Arts 2022-2025

• California Arts Council, 2002, 2003, 2021, 2022, 2023

• Center for Cultural Innovation & City of Berkeley 2022

• The Kennedy Center Office Hours Residency 2021

• Dance Camera Istanbul 2021

• SCINEMA International Science Film Festival 2021 - Official Selection

• San Francisco Dance Film Festival - CoLab Adobe Residency 2019

• California Relief Grant 2021

• Phyllis C Wattis Foundation 2019, 2020, 2022

• Fleishhacker Foundation 2019

• Isadora Duncan Award for Sustained Achievement 2019

• NEA, 2013, 2014, 2019, 2021, 2023

• SF Grants for the Arts, 2000-2023

• SF Arts Commission Grant, 2013, 2014, 2022

• Kenneth Rainin Foundation, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2022

• Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, 2013-2019, 2022

• Neuroscape Lab Resident Artist, UCSF 2013-2019

• Zellerbach Family Fund, 1998-2018

• Voluntary Arts Contribution Fund, 2012 & 2013

• CounterPulse AIR 2015

• The McElwee Family Fellowship, 2014

• The Dale Djerassi Fellowship, 2008

• Altria Group, 2007 & 2008

• Toyota's Together Green, 2008

• Djerassi Artist Colony, 2008 & 2014

• Yaddo Artist Colony, 2005 & 2006

• CHIME Mentorship with Joanna Haigood, 2003

• LEF, 2002

• American Composers' Forum, 2000

• Theater Bay Area, 1999

Talks

• Monaco Dance Forum 2002 & 2004

• Ecological Society of America Conference 2007

• American Physical Society 2010

• CUNY Communicating Science through the Performing Arts 2010

• TEDxSeattle 2010

• Evergreen State College 2010

• BLUEMiND Summit at CAS 2011

• Dance USA’s 20/20 Vision Series 2012

• Bay Area Science Festival 2012

• Turtle Island Restoration Network, Marin 2012

• TEDxBerkeley, Zellerbach Hall 2012

• Black Hills State University, SD 2012

• The Dahl Arts Center, Rapid City, SD 2012

• TEDxBRC 2012

• Pepsico Executive Retreat, SF 2012

• The Hive 2013

• Athleta Design Retreat, SF 2013

• Science and Literature Conference, U of Utah 2014

• Project Commotion 2014

• BLUEMiND Book Launch 2014

• The Battery 2014

• Zendesk 2015

• Dorkbot 2016

• EcoArts Australis 2016

• American Museum of Natural History 2018

• Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2018

• Djerassi Forever 2018

• The Battery 2019

• SF Dance Film Festival VR 2019

• Djerassi Forever 2020

• Museum of Dance VR Panel 2020

• Y-Exchange 2020

• Tektite 2020 - Women of Sea and Space

• LocalLove - MusePop 2020

• Creatics 2020

• Choreographers and Coffee 2020

• Museum of Dance Podcast 2022

• Stanford Psychedelic Science Group 2023

• SHACK15 2023

• Burning Man, Center Camp 2023

• Capacitor Lab, Cesar Chavez Studios 2023

• Society of the Neuroscience of Creativity 2024

• Chacruna Culture and Psychedelics 2024

• Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity 2025

• Circus Sessions 10 2025

Background

A 1996 cum laude graduate of the arts conservatory at SUNY Purchase, Lomask has trained at the Royal Ballet Academy, Merce Cunningham Studio, London Contemporary Dance School, the Rotterdam Dansacademie, L' Espace Catastrophe, and Jacob's Pillow. She has performed with Project Bandaloop, Kneejerk, Erica Essner Performance Co-op, Zaccho Dance Theatre, and Capacitor and has taught workshops and classes in modern dance technique, composition, and collaboration at universities across the United States.