Performance Hypothesis is an Atlanta-based arts and wellbeing consulting group. Since 2021, Performance Hypothesis has championed award-winning arts and wellbeing research, evaluation, policy efforts, and convenings.  

Anchored in collaboration, Performance Hypothesis championed the nation’s first arts and mental health legislation in history, Georgia’s House Resolution 1007, with unanimous, bipartisan support. Performance Hypothesis has supported strategic planning initiatives at Emory University and the Segerstrom Center for the Arts. 

As a team of arts and wellbeing experts, Performance Hypothesis has co-led research and evaluation with Creative Forces; NEA-funded research on the impact of dance for people living with Parkinson’s; Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s Music as Medicine initiative to use live music to address people living with Alzheimer’s; arts and mental health programs for incarcerated youth with The Jimmy Carter Presidential Center; and theater for vaccine confidence programming (‘Equitable Vaccines,’ with funding from the CDC and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation).

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