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
