At once playful and deeply expressive, Under Polaris confronts head-on the tension between primal nostalgia and modern technological optimism. In their latest mix of projected animation, live theater and electronic music, Cloud Eye Control charts an epic journey across a vast arctic expanse — a sublime icebound landscape illuminated under the ethereal lights of the Northern sky.

At the center of Under Polaris is the quest to preserve, inside pristine shards of ice at the top of the world, a seed containing the wealth of all human history: a back-up system for our genetic imprint and the sum total of our personal memories. En route, the story’s protagonist shape-shifts into many a mythic creature to survive the elements and, in the process, learns about the inextricable interdependence of humans and nature.

Featuring the talents of:

Cloud Eye Control: Miwa Matreyek, Anna Oxygen, Chi-wang Yang
Video Programming & Sound Design: Nathan Ruyle
Lighting Design: Chris Kuhl
Music Director: Sage Lewis
Musicans: Radio Sloan, Rachel Carns, Jessica Catron, Dan Eaton
Stage Management: Maggie Goddard
Costume: Michelle Kline/SNAP design
Bear Costume: Mindy Le Brock
Choreography: Janet Pants
Crew: Brad Culver, Jessica Emmanuel, John Kern, Heidi Darchuk
Intern: Sarah Manuwal

Overture composed by THE NEED (Radio Sloan and Rachel Carns)

Under Polaris is a National Performance Network Creation Fund project co-commissioned by REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/Cal Arts Theater), PICA and Leslie B. Durst. Created with support from the Princess Grace Foundation Special Project Award.