Japanese Gardens, Ray Lee's Siren and Chunky Move's "Glow"

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It's a magic carpet ride through an ever-unfolding Japanese garden. Italy's beloved visual theater company, TPO, creates captivating, "sensitive" theatrical environments for children. The Children's Cheering Carpet is real all right: a stage-size, snowy white carpet embedded with touch-sensors that trigger showers of images and mercurial landscapes. Dancers reveal the carpet's magic capabilities and then invite members of the audience to animate the garden themselves. It's immersive, playful theater, unlike anything you've experienced.

The otherworldly hit of the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, SIREN is a transfixing audio-visual spectacle at the intersection of art and science: 29 metal "sirens" with arms spinning at high velocities atop sturdy tripods. The sirens' pitched calls coalesce into vast bewitching choruses as the audience wanders and explores.

Chunky Move's GLOW presents an evocation of the human longing for escape and transcendence. The audience surrounds a solo dancer in motion upon a glowing, hyper-responsive platform for a riveting, half-hour choreographic essay and technological feat, a ceaseless trail of kinetic, neo-psychedelic visual effects mapping the dancer's movements in real time.

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