HIGHLAND LAKE, NY — “A mythic telling of loss, transformation and enchantment for the digital age.”

The Hinterlands is a Detroit-based company creating performances and public events that are equal parts playful and surreal. Their work is built around pressing into unknown areas of personal and collective history with fearless physicality and a sense of humor. They create a space for audiences to experience this unknown hinterland with the performers through techniques that disarm and disorient, short-circuiting expectations and luring them into unexpected interactions.

Inspired by medieval retellings of the Orpheus myth and collective internet-driven madness, “Sunset: A Techno Elegy” weaves technologies old and new—mask performance, live video mixing, AI chatbots, electronic music, lamentations, spirit talking, automata, Victorian illusion and more—into a music-driven, terrifyingly embodied work that mythologizes humans relationship with technology, and how it has changed and shaped the imagination.

This work in progress will be presented Saturday, May 10 at 7:30 p.m. with soup and conversation to follow.

More information and reservations at www.NACL.org.