Locating Lucidity is a creative method and embodied research approach I’ve developed over the past few years to support performance-based work that asks artists to engage with deeply personal or sensitive material. Initially incubated as an Art Omi resident and later piloted with the artists and community of Attack Theatre suppoted by a Heinz Endowment Creative Development Award, this methodology evolved into a set of “containers”—intentional spaces where performers can step beyond the limits of pre-choreographed movement and connect with their most authentic physical impulses.

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These sessions nurtured a deeper awareness of both physical and emotional vocabulary, enabling artists to articulate their individuality with greater clarity and nuance. Rather than simply generating movement, the process encourages us to peel back habitual patterns and assumptions to uncover the raw, honest potential of the body—while fully honoring the agency of each performer to engage at their own capacity, moment by moment.

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Within the context of ensemble or company work, these containers became a kind of communal laboratory. They offered a space to explore the intersections of our distinct embodied histories—how they resonate, clash, and ultimately contribute to the collective. Improvisation was not just a tool but a philosophy: a way to integrate personal experience into a shared creative process. Through this work, we honored our responsibility to the ensemble as a living, breathing organism—one whose strength lies in the richness and complexity of its members.