Quantum Voyages 4.0 - Workshop

Name: Quantum Voyages 4.0 - Workshop
Start: 2024-11-16T12:00:00-06:00
End: 2024-11-16T16:00:00-06:00
Location: Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

Schedule

Sat Nov 16 2024 at 12:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Krannert Center for the Performing Arts | Urbana, IL

Hello! Since last spring, CASCaDe has been preparing for the fourth iteration of our performance piece, QUANTUM VOYAGES that will be presented at the American Physical Society Conference in Anaheim in March, 2025, and a full presentation in Colwell Playhouse at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, in April 2025.
THE WHAT:
As we revisit this performance piece, we invite you to join us in an exploration of Fermions, a breed of unfriendly quantum particles that compose the essence of who we are--electrons, protons, neutrons, and more.

Here, the quantum voyagers enter the strange, forbidding world of a metallic crystal, where electrons form a treacherous 'Fermi sea' (and one of the voyagers cannot swim!). How will they navigate the landscape? How will their guiding spirit, Sapienza, save them from the fermions bombarding them every which way and into chasms? And if saved, will they too emerge transformed into warring beings or will they find a state of harmony?

This will be an afternoon of play with text and movement around this scientific theme through the artistic, the abstract and the literal.
THE WHEN:
Saturday, November 16, 2024 from Noon – 4:00pm.
THE WHERE:
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts located at 500 South Goodwin in Urbana – Opera Rehearsal Room on the 2nd Floor.

THE WHO:
You! This is open to folks in the Urbana/Champaign community, students, faculty, staff.
Participation in the workshop does not commit you to the full project. Come play with us!!

If you are interested and available, space is limited so please contact Latrelle Bright at [email protected] by 5pm on Thursday, Novembre 14, 2024.

We very much hope you will be available that day!
*Note: This piece will travel to Anaheim in March and be presented in Colwell Playhouse in April. This workshop is not an audition. Auditions will happen in December.
Latrelle Bright, Theatre
Stephen Taylor, Music
Smitha Vishveshwara, Physics