A visual symphony of the Sun and aurora related images are projected large-scale into the performance environment. Stunning computer animations, rare satellite images of solar eruptions, immense coronas crowning the earth at its poles,  photographs of the aurora shot by astronauts from spacecraft in near space, and spectacular movies and photographs that capture the beauty, immensity and violence of the aurora  transform the theatre environment in a synthesis of art and nature. These spectacular images and movies originate from spacecraft orbiting the sun and the earth, photographs and movies from a ground-based perspective and spectacular real-time interactive cyber worlds created for the project.

Tania Fraga and an assistant work with two high-end computers during the performance.  One LCD projector is used in  Part I: The Sun/Virtual Sun for video projection of Sun movies and cyber worlds on the dancer and a screen 12' x 12' hung downstage  A projector, 3500 lumins, is employed in Parts II, III, and IV for video and computer projection upstage, 30' x 40', on a white backdrop. Future View, a Washington, DC based multi media company, supported the project with high-end equipment for mixing of images in Part IV.

Images and movies are provided by NASA, European Space Agency, ISAS, Johnson Space Center, NOAA, John Sigwarth and Louis Frank of the University of Iowa, Trond Trondson’s Auroral Imagery, University of Calgary, and other international centers for auroral research.  R.H. Eather and SOLAR MAX IMAX, Jan Curtis, Dick Hutchinson, and other international photographers provided spectacular images and movies of the aurora.  The Internet was crucial for research related to the aurora.

Visit the Internet site Tania Fraga cyber worlds: http://www.unb.br/vis/lvpa/index.html 
To view in 3-D, download the free Blaxxun program outlined at the site. 
Additional Tania Fraga sites:
http://www.lsi.usp.br/~tania/; http://caiia-star.soc.plym.ac.uk/projects/XMANTIC/; http://www.unb.br/vis/lvpa/xmantic; 

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