Impulse emerged from the Lincoln Center Collider Fellowship when co-founders Brandon Powers and Whitt Sellers were experimenting with performance in Unreal Engine. Brandon was experiencing a few critical challenges in his own choreographic workflow:
Impulse was created to solve these exact problems for Brandon—and for every choreographer pushing the boundaries of scale.
Brandon Powers is a director, choreographer, facilitator, and technology translator who creates experiences across physical and virtual space. Blending his background in contemporary dance, theatre, and immersive technology, his work focuses on capturing liveness in the digital, building interdisciplinary communities, and shifting culture towards a more embodied future. His projects span forms incorporating AI, extended reality, and live performance including Echoes in Motion (Lincoln Center), Queerskins: ARK (Venice, Cannes XR), Frankenstein AI (Sundance), Duet (New York Live Arts), and Kinetic Diffusion (FilmGate Interactive, New Images).
Brandon is the Artistic Innovation Lead at Musical Theatre Factory, Onassis ONX Studio member, NEW INC alum, Lincoln Center Collider Fellow (2025), and has spoken on the intersection of arts and technology across the world at TCG National Conference, Verizon’s 5G Lab, DanceXR Singapore and more.
Whitt Sellers is an XR Creative Technologist and Visual Artist based in North Carolina exploring novel forms of creative expression and play at the intersection of immersive technology and live performance. He earned his MFA in Design & Technology from Parsons School of Design in May 2022, where he later returned as part-time faculty to teach Creative Coding with Unreal Engine in the Fall of 2024, and earned his Authorized Unreal Instructor certification from Epic Games in April 2025.
Whitt specializes in performance capture for interactive experiences, and his work includes audio/visual live performances, hybrid theatrical shows, interactive festival stages, museum installations, XR concert experiences, educational workshops, and more. Whitt's audio/visual live performances blend his passion for fire spinning with his technology practice, taking the audience on a mesmerizing, cinematic journey through a virtual worlds filled with interactive visual effects driven by his prop and body movement.
1 Year of Iteration
Impulse's creation was generously supported by dancers, choreographers, and institutions, including: