Dance Poem Revolution is a game about poetry and revolution.
Inspired by the popular rhythm game Dance Dance Revolution, players are invited to write poetry for the revolution with their whole body.
The collaged video backgrounds and words are scraped from a wide range of revolutionary sources including materials from the fight for a free Palestine, the Black Lives Matter movement, June Jordan, Fred Moten, Mayday riots, the artist’s personal dms, open source DDR video assets, among many other sources. These materials are iterative and adapted to speak to the revolutionary currents most pertinent within each new environment the game is installed. Players press their full weight on a dancepad to remix, revel, and reveal—to write—to dance.

Dance Poem Revolution is created by Melanie Hoff with support from Tyler Yin and Todd Anderson

Melanie Hoff is an artist, organizer, technologist, and educator committed to cultivating spaces of learning and feeling that encourage honesty, poetry, and reconciliation for the ways we are shaped by intersecting systems of classification and power. Melanie engages hacking and performance to express the absurdities of these systems while revealing the encoded ways in which they influence how we choose to live and what choices have been made for us. They teach about sex, technology, and social cybernetics at the School for Poetic Computation, Yale University, New York University, and have shown work at the New Museum, the Queens Museum, and elsewhere.