Invoking international mythologies and my family’s Slavic traditions as containers, I am creating a site-specific theater piece set on pedestrian bridges exploring what we need to leave behind and what we want to build to combat the crisis intersection of climate and immigration. In the form of a journey; the audience is guided across bridges by choral singers, puppeteers, mythical creatures, monsters and gods who communicate in multiple languages.

The audience experiences a meta-narrative to examine their own fears about the future. There are several stories of the Rainbow bridge leading to the world of the gods. When Earth is destroyed from apocalypse, a team of brave mortals venture across to forge the new Earth, rising from the seas. What happens in that space between the new and old, that delicate, treacherous transition time?

Globally, people are being violently divided by imposed borders. As humanity faces a pivotal moment where we can either resign ourselves to a future of climate chaos and increased attacks on immigrant rights or organize immediately to save the planet, it is no surprise we are consumed by anxiety. Through the transformative power of theater in public space, I hope to push back against the despair.

The show is interactive, musical, anti-fascist and fun. It will enable audience to imagine a future when we breach the walls to unify. By using pedestrian bridges as our theater, we morph a known entity with the magic of spectacle and empower participants to envision new dreams.

First Iteration was in migrant cultural center, Brunnenpassage in Vienna, Austria with international participants and in collaboration with Dafa Puppet Theater Company members Husam Abed and Reka Deak and Iraqi Autumn arts collective.

The second iteration was with international participants in Prague, Czech Republic in the main train station.

The Night The Earth Shook