Sensing Sound, by artists Gabbi Lieve, Maja Petani, and Emily Read, emerged through a desire to explore the dialogical relationship between the body and sound. Following musicologist Nina Sun Eidsheim’s claim that sound is an ongoing negotiation between sensing bodies, materiality, and sound waves, this piece combines voice, breath, and movement as a means of articulating the ways in which the singing body and the dancing body continually engage in the act of co-creation. Playing between voice and movement as a catalyst for action and reaction, Sensing Sound locates different engines within the body, focusing not on the effort involved in activating these engines but on what is created in the contact between them. 

Maja Petani and Emily Read are both dancers whose practices are based in contemporary dance and movement research. Gabbi Lieve is a singer-songwriter whose research focuses on voice, text, and embodiment.