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.
Directed by Rachel Bowditch
Assistant Directed by Clara Kundin
Choreographed by Saza Kent
Dramaturgy by Karen Jean Martinson
2023 production produced by Arizona State University with seed grant funding from Seize the Moment (Leonardo + ASU Humanities Lab + the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Lab) and an Institute for Humanities Research and Herberger Institute Seed Grant.