In order to make a reservation for choreographer Tahni Holt's new show, you have to go through her website—no tickets available at the door, no order by phone, only a click through of her occasionally cryptic homepage (tahniholt.com/endless). This is the first indication that with endless ocean, endless sky, Holt is deliberately structuring an unusually specific audience experience. The second indication is the statement, found on the website, that "roughly 10 audience members can participate in each performance."

Note the use of the word "participate." I spoke with Holt about endless ocean, which opens this Thursday, October 11, for one weekend—12 shows in four nights—and it quickly became clear that Holt takes a mad-scientist's approach to performance. "When I perform, I'm looking at the audience as though they are performing too," she told me; and without revealing too much about the environment in which endless ocean is situated, suffice it to say that the 10-person audience is very much at the center of the action.

The show itself is structured around a script consisting of 100 short chapters, which Holt calls a "blueprint." Holt sent the blueprint to video artists in Ohio and New York. In this performance, Holt tells me there is a "democracy happening between all the elements": movement, light, sound, and video. Rather than use technical elements merely to support movement, as in more traditional productions, all elements of the production are given equal weight, here, as pieces of the audience's total sensory experience.

The video and choreography in the hour-long performance are based on Holt's non-linear, non-narrative blueprint, but like a body from which the skeleton has been removed, none of the actual text is used in the show. The words in this tie together the disparate elements of the performance—take away the words, and what's left?

The show is rooted in the idea that stories and memories occupy internal space, and that that space has value. Endless ocean, Holt tells me—and this is as close to a summary as we're going to get—is about "creating a story that resides in you when you walk away." And for audience members lucky enough to see it, I imagine endless ocean will do just that.