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In 2017, Jackie Goodman dismantled the proscenium at The Kitchen by staging 'Echo Chamber', a durational piece where dancers wore real-time biofeedback sensors that altered lighting and sound based on collective heart-rate variance, exposing how political polarization physically reshapes group movement. Her choreographic method, 'fractured consensus,' rejects narrative coherence in favor of intentional dissonance: performers rehearse opposing emotional directives for the same phrase, grief and defiance, reverence and mockery, then perform them simultaneously, forcing audiences to confront embodied contradiction. She co-founded the Movement Equity Lab in Brooklyn, not as a studio but as a rotating civic space where housing activists, public school teachers, and disabled artists co-design movement scores rooted in local policy struggles. Goodman’s work refuses spectacle; instead, it treats the rehearsal process itself as public testimony, often documented via unedited audio diaries released alongside premieres. Her 2023 piece 'Redacted Rehearsal' used FOIA-obtained NYPD surveillance footage of protest choreography as movement source material, reconstructing gestures censored in official records.
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- “How did your 'fractured consensus' method change after working with NYC tenant organizers?”
- “What ethical boundaries do you set when using biometric data in live performance?”
- “Why did you choose FOIA documents—not protest videos—as source material for 'Redacted Rehearsal'?”
- “How does your Movement Equity Lab decide which policy issue becomes a new choreographic score?”