The Total theatre of the Future

As you might have read from my main page, a big passion of mine is the on going development of the Total Theatre of the Future, check out the link to see a dissertation i wrote on the subject.  If you dont fancy wading through 32 pages during your hard earned lunch break (i dont blame you!), heres the short version:  In bring together seperate art forms, like music, drama, dance, architecture, poetry and painting 150 years ago, Richard Wagner was able to create the most powerfull performances of his day.  I argue that Wagner's 'Total work of art' as he called it, was a precursor to the Total Theatre of the Future.  I argue that the movement this theatre emearges and takes form from will be dance culture (or rave / club culture).  I also argue that the Total Theatre will play a part in changing our narrow perspective on life to one that includes all of time and space.  It wont tell stories like the theatres and cinemas of today tell.  It will literaly tell the story of creation, the story of life itself, from the big bang to our moment and into the unlimited potential of our collective future.  It will be a sublimely emotional and breathtaking experience.  I finnish my dissertation with this: 

150 years ago Wagner's dream was to bring together separate arts to create an art form that would inspire awe in people's hearts.  Around 50 years later Wassily Kandinski said, "And so the arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly monumental."  This monumental art could become a shrine to humanities greatest and highest ideals.  "Let us now extend everything we do to be part of a grand collaboration - with one's self, ones tools, other humans..." Alan Kay

I am a member of a multi-media performance group called, for the moment, Neosonic.  Here is our 2006 promo.  We have performed in London a few times, in New York once and if you like, you can watch the video of our latest performance in Frankfurt.  I'll try and keep posting whenever new things are happening.  Stay tuned!