Electric charges may take place constantly, but they are at their most dramatic in the dark. That’s what Capacitor, a multidisciplinary performance group, proved at a low-lit presentation Saturday at the Maine Center for the Arts in Orono. Under the direction of Jodi Lomask, a classically trained ballet dancer, Capacitor pushes the lines of movement and art toward science and social commentary.

“Within Outer Spaces,” a 75-minute showcase, called on the considerable strength and elasticity of seven performers, including Alexander Zendzian, whose earliest dance training was in Bangor (but whose roles were limited Saturday because of a broken foot). The dancer-acrobats sometimes were suspended from the ceiling and floated through the air, embracing or catapulting imagistically. In an athletic pas de deux, a couple was bungee-corded together, bouncing toward, away and into each other.

The show was part circus, part performance art, part cartoon and part intellectual ramble, a combination that could be fascinating and confounding.

On a white screen, projected images of Earth, of cell division and of monitor readouts were integral to Lomask’s amalgamated sense of the connections art can make. In her own quest to know the universe, she poses these questions: Can dancers tell us about carbon and nitrogen? Or represent those first days of human life? Or move in the fashion of meteors?

Capacitor underscored that Lomask, who is in her 20s, is playing with and pushing ideas that are, at once, ancient, contemporary and futuristic. Her vision emphasizes isolation as well as connectedness, panic as well as tenderness, technology as well as visceral human physicality. Clearly Lomask is a young artist whose aesthetics and technique still are taking shape in a way that make her an artist to keep an eye on.