Content Transparency: This production includes apocalyptic content, nuclear disaster, an extinction event and the climate crisis. it also includes alarms, sirens, and loud sounds.

Anthropocene

Collectively created by graduate and undergraduate students through a series of devising labs, Anthropocene incorporates innovative media design, dance, movement, text, sound and image into a powerful portrait of our world out of balance. Its non-traditional and non-linear approach to storytelling offers flashes of characters within a mosaic of various worlds throughout history: the Silk Road, the Industrial Revolution, 1950s America to present day. Anthropocene tells a story of the escalation of consumption and how we are hurtling towards an unsustainable future.

Episodes

Below is a list of the episodes that comprise the performance. Each of these episodes is informed by deep dramaturgical research, which you can view on the  Anthropocene Dramaturgical Research Site.

A World Underwater

May I Have Your Attention Please?

Coffee To Go

What Do You Know?

The Global Seed Vault

Braiding Sweetgrass

Silk Road

The 1950s

The Industrial Revolution

Unraveling the Universe / The Sixth Extinction

Extreme Weather

Plastic Rain / Plastic Ocean

Chernobyl

Climate Refugees

The World Without Us

Virtual Program

ASU Anthropocene Program.pdf