Architecture and theater have had a long-standing relationship, from Palladio's designs for the Teatro Olimpico to Modernist Bauhaus productions and, more recently, the contemporary work of Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
For PennDesign, architecture and dramaturgy is tethered to material transformations over time and sound. Don’t miss this exploratory production revisiting classical mythology through robotic performance and human-machine interaction at Slought, where these transformations are activated by new technologies and new media in response to opera and audience for a contemporary retelling of the operatic story Orpheus and Eurydice on Saturday, December 13.
Led by the Immersive Kinematics group at PennDesign under Simon Kim and the ModLab group at PennEngineering, the production team encompasses faculty and students from engineering and architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, an award-winning former composer-in-residence of Opera Philadelphia, and musicians from the Curtis Institute of Music, all working together with robotic performers and players - yet another example of innovative and interdisciplinary activities that happen regularly at PennDesign - learn more.
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