In this performance, the dancers and choreographers of Dayton Contemporary Dance Company step into dialogue with the visual world of Gretchen Durst Jacobs, drawing inspiration from her evocative exhibition Resilient Convergence. Jacobs’ work—layered, fluid, and fiercely intricate—captures the tension between fragility and strength, chaos and harmony, emergence and release. Her swirling forms and organic abstractions echo movement already in motion, as if her lines could lift from the canvas and breathe.

The choreographers, Countess V. Winfrey, Jennifer Sydon and Stevie Lamblin interpret Jacobs’ visual language into living motion—transforming brushstroke into gesture, texture into rhythm, stillness into momentum. Each dancer becomes both canvas and catalyst, embodying the resilience at the heart of convergence: where bodies, histories, visions, and energies collide not in conflict, but in powerful coexistence.

What you witness is not just interpretation—it is collaboration across medium and spirit. A fusion of ink and muscle, pigment and breath. A testament to endurance, reinvention, and the beauty found in becoming.