Choreographer/director Brian Sanders brings a new URBAN SCUBA—a large-scale acrobatic-aerial-dance-theater spectacle where the typical rules of gravity and order don’t apply. To survive in the upside down world of URBAN SCUBA requires a new set of skills and tactics, an ingenious imagination and physical daring. URBAN SCUBA takes a deep dive into the layers of civilization and cultural evolutions, finding beauty and new perspectives in the discarded and unwanted remnants of human civilization. Repurposed technology, locomotion, our obsession with plastic, and a splash of joyful nostalgia are driven by the show's highly original pulsating electro-rock music score.

In an undisclosed city there’s a dark, cavernous abyss. What unexpected discoveries lay deep below the surface? Curiosity outweighs danger, and the intrepid inhabitants of this city take an “urban scuba” expedition through stunning cityscapes, subterranean caverns, shimmering aquatic depths, and the unfolding celestial heavens. Complete with an actual dumpster dive, ingeniously reconfigured sculptural apparatuses are hauled up, and the mad, gleeful performers swing, spin, glide, and partner one another in impossible feats of physics to create moving images of daring beauty. Seeming to defy gravity in their innovative aerial partnering and often displaying awe-inspiring beauty and trust, our performers wend their way down through the layers of our shared past and the leftovers of those who came before.