EMPAC at Rensselaer invites artists, technologists, scholars, and all arts enthusiasts to a work-in-progress dance performance by Onye Ozuzu.

SPACE CARCASSES is a new dance production that explores how architectures haunt the body and impart their histories to us as physical effects. Ozuzu's SPACE CARCASSES is inspired by Africanist, circular conceptions of time and expands on these traditions to enable connections to a communal self and to ancestors. Ozuzu situates the body as a technology with the power to access different moments across collective experience.

The production is performed in an architectural corner created within EMPAC Studio 1—Goodman Theater, which also functions as a projection surface. Large-scale video projections trail and replay live dancer’s movements in real-time, and a "sound dancer" uses EMPAC’s spatialization sound technology.

EMPAC work-in-progress events offer a window into the research, development, and production of new works by artists while in residence at the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center on the campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.

The event is open to all.