Blending interactive theater approaches with culturally immersive technologies, The Indigenous Dance Forum (IDF) was part community activation, part performance ritual, and part forum. Guided by intuition-led, process-based methodologies, IDF, the major outcome of Jack Gray‘s semester-long residency at the A/P/A Institute at NYU, implored us to find a way to create and articulate a deeper sense of connection to the place Mannahatta.