How Batteries Move: Open Studio

Event details Date: Thursday, August 6, 2026 Time: 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM Cost: Free Venue: Nadine McGuire Theatre and Dance Pavilion Address: 1800 McCarty Dr, Gainesville, Florida 32603 Room: G-6 Studio About this event College of the Arts Reserve a spot August 6 8:30 pm How Batteries Move: Open Studio is a free, informal event including lecture-demonstration style performances, participatory audience activities, and a moderated talkback. Led by UF faculty from the School of Theatre + Dance, Xan Burley and Alex Springer, in collaboration with NSF-funded materials scientist Dr. Megan Butala, this interdisciplinary research project integrates choreography, dance improvisation, and performance with materials science research on lithium-ion batteries. Open Studio is the culmination of a weeklong workshop, How Batteries Move: Dance Labs, in which 15 student and community dancers — directed by Burley, Springer, and Butala — collaboratively developed an original dance work synthesizing artistic and scientific inquiry. Audience members can expect to engage in various embodied activities developed during rehearsals, view the finished dance work, and discuss the project during a talkback moderated by Dr. Elif Akçalı, Associate Professor and Cottmeyer Family Innovative Frontiers Fellow, UF Industrial and Systems Engineering. Photos by Jordan Mendelsohn. Performance Official event details: https://arts.ufl.edu/event/how-batteries-move-open-studio/