Partially funded by:
Sponsored in part by: The Discovery Museum, The Connecticut Commission on the Arts, The Bermant Foundation - Color Light Motion

Continuum Marvels is a re-creation of the highly popular Terra Continuum production in the Stony Creek Quarry, which was the opening event for the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in 1999, staged throughout the Discovery Museum and illustrated by light projections, original music, sculpture, performance and audience participation.

Continuum Marvels moves the audience moved the Henry B. DuPont Planetarium where images representing the Big Bang, the split of the continents and evolution of world cultures.

The museum galleries were transformed into vignettes of stories presented by the great scientific thinkers from all time. The audience walked through a gallery where the robots, ENFORCER 2000 and GIZMO guided the group to the story conclusion (for now) with the contemplation of String Theory and the Big T.O.E. or Theory of Everything. Presented as a light and performance extravaganza in the Museum's Food Court.

Continuum Marvels Players
Joy Wulke - Creative Director
Tom Burnet - Director
Istvan Peter B'Racz - Composer/Music Director
Jamie Burnett - Production/Lighting Design
Susan Mendelsohn - Playwright/Dramaturg
Margaret Carl - Stage Manager
Actors
Leslie Blateau-Thomas Murphy-Joel Farrell-Jessica Vasquez


Marvels Continued
Marvels Continued is a series of family workshops to accompany Continuum Marvels and included:

Creation Myths - Colleen Coleman
Through a combination of story telling, masks making and dramatic play, students explore the origins of the universe. After hearing stories of several creation myths, participants use paper and found materials to make masks, props, and costumes to perform their own stories of the creation of the universe.

The Universe - Bob Crelin
Bob brings his telescopes for viewing the sun exploring its amazing imagery and energy power. The children also make a "constellation in a can" and become Planets, staging tableaus to learn the relationship of scale and distance within our Universe.

The Magic of Numbers - Tom Burnett
Participants dramatize through body movement and paint small murals about theory of the explosive creation of matter, its swift formation into the beginning of our world and how it all relates to numbers and time.

 

The FIRST Robots - Dan Tripp and the Farmington High School Robot Team
Participants operated and learn about the making of ENFORCER 2000 and GIZMO, robots capable of picking up, carrying, and placing objects in a goal. The FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) program immerses students into the world of engineering and shows the connection between classroom learning and actual applications.

 


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