A bold meld of dance, circus, and gravity-defying invention, URBAN SCUBA is off-the-wall choreography —a dreamlike scuba dive into society’s past and present, driven by an original pulsating electro-rock music score, and capturing grace and beauty whether of bodies in mid-air or gliding across the stage on a shimmering watery surface. Audiences are transported to the abandoned buildings and the cavernous substrata of an Any-City USA, where six fearless explorers delightfully re-imagine and re-purpose society’s leftovers in playful and literally high-flying ways.

Choreographer–director Brian Sanders’ URBAN SCUBA uses ingenious imagination and physical virtuosity to transform stages into a distinct vision—dancing upon spinning ladders and swaying boiler pipes and circling bicycles all suspended in air, high diving into an actual dumpster, vertical dances on a giant chain-link fence, a dancer swimming like an aquarium fish on a garment rack.

URBAN SCUBA’s upside down, aquatic world is built entirely from discarded urban materials and features performers who joyfully bring radically reconfigured sculptural apparatuses to life. The result is not only an audience thrill-ride, but a transformative experience, prompting audiences to see their world with a new perspective—to take joy in finding alternate possibilities for their surroundings as well as all those things people keep stored away in basements and attics, deeply personal treasures of the ordinary awaiting a new life. Instead of a dystopia, URBAN SCUBA embraces the possibilities of left behind objects reborn as innovative wonders, inviting audiences to see urban landscapes in new and wondrous ways, transforming once lost worlds and dreams into dance, illusion, and theatrical beauty.