By using touch as the trigger, this interactive electric touch-senstive experience turns connection, pressure, and collaboration into a shared visual and sonic moment. Flexible across immersive art, performing arts, family programming, and brand activiations. This is a human powered experience where touch completes the circuit and connection creates the show.
Electric tap dance was the first form. The goal was to visualize the assertion of willpower that a tapper makes with stomping on the floor. The role of contact has expanded to direct human to human contact.
Light, sound, video, and other systems can be triggered by the interaction of the participants. The technological tools in this project include transistors, copper, relays, latches, MaxMSP, Playtronic, and others.
The system monitors skin on skin contact, such as high-fives, foot steps, smacks on your face, and others.
When the dancers stand on the contact points and clap their hands together, the system recognizes the flow between them.
Two forms of movement that are tightly integrated with music.
There's a dancer behind the white curtain. When the dancer in front steps in certain places on the dance floor it causes lights behind the curtain to turn on, which casts the hidden dancers shadows onto the curtain.
When one person touches both of the contact points the systems recognizes the pre-existing electrical flow in their bodies. The triggers an internal system to turn on a light.

Kwabena Slaughter, “lay your hands on ours”, Greene Block + Studios, July 3, 2025. Lunder Institute for American Art Summer Think Tank 2025, photography by Ben Wheeler.
Staircast made in honor of the work of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson.
Audience participation during Theatre Week.
Youth interaction at Arena Stage