The Rella’s Cambrian Dream - Digital Immersion Digital Immersion Gallery Pilot explores how to include live performance and theatre into digital immersion spaces with 360 degree projection and surround sound.
The story follows an ancient creature - Rella, a Marrella splendens - on a hero’s journey to find a new home, and discover the connection between life on earth today and life on earth 530 million years ago.
Audiences meet a live guide who leads a ‘hike’ up to the Burgess Shale - one of the world’s most important fossil sites in Canada’s Rocky Mountains.
As the audiences travel, they go back in time - long, long before the dinosaurs.
An episodic audio drama grounds the performance in a story that activates the audience’s imagination.
Ancient creatures come to life through an Augmented Reality fossil hunt.