Nano Steps - Into the Lab

Something miraculous may be found right beneath your shoe. The creators of Nano Steps – Into the Lab invite the audience into a microscopic world where physical experiments take place. In their laboratory, the tiniest particles, scientific instruments, and even the audience itself influence the course of the experiment. Does the microworld have something to say? Can a grain of sand hear us? And what might the smallest puppet in the world be? The performance is inspired by current research in applied physics. During the creative process, Trial & Theatre contacted world-renowned professors from Cornell University, the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, New York University, and Aalto University in Finland. It is a unique intersection of science and object theatre, making use of new techniques of microscopic puppetry. The human eye cannot comprehend the scale of microparticles – their “life” is revealed to us only through microscopes. Come and look at the world from a different perspective with us. Trial & Theatre is a performance group focused on experimentation and a conceptual approach to puppet theatre. Nano Steps marks their first entry into the world of physics and material sciences, as well as their first series of staged projects. The group aims for a free and unrestrained research process in which the performative forms of science and puppetry intersect and blur one another’s boundaries. Warning: The performance uses strobe lighting and high-frequency sounds.