Apeiro Design’s (formerly Auerbach Pollock Friedlander) collaboration with the design teams from Cirque du Soleil, Venetian Macao and Aedas fostered the design for this spectacular 1,800-seat performance space and the development of the advanced theatrical systems that were integrated into the building. The firm’s work coordinated the theatrical technology with the performance environment allowing the audience to be completely immersed in the production, enveloping it a 3D experience.

The theatre concept is based on a proscenium form with layers of “gill walls” from the audience to the stage creating the feeling of an enveloping curved proscenium. Overhead the fly loft supports a complex system of overhead acrobatic tracks and trolleys and a large video sphere traveling over the audience and the stage. The show was staged throughout the theatre with scenery and performers entering from the rear of the audience and from stage.

The production criteria required integrating infrastructure to support the sophisticated systems, including acrobatic tracks, a rear of house scenery garage, high speed trolleys and bridge cranes, special effects, automation, lighting, projection and sound systems, stage lifts and turntables.