Robot Apocalypse
The first production under the name.
Archive recovered · Flagstaff, Arizona · 2015—2026
Robot
Apocalypse
The body is a temporary miracle.
The machine is an impossible one.
Somewhere between them, we keep trying to understand what we are.
A decade-long live performance universe where humans, robots, circus artists, dancers, drag performers, musicians, visual artists, emerging technology, and audiences collide.
Robot Apocalypse is seeking creative partners and funders for its next major production, Robot Apocalypse: Human. Explore the future production →
Circus × cabaret × drag × dance × handmade props × projection × collage × AI × bodies × glitches × jokes × portals × community × circus × cabaret × drag × dance × handmade props × projection × collage × AI × bodies × glitches × jokes × portals × community ×
Central question
“What kind of future are we building together?”
Robot Apocalypse is not a forecast of sleek technological progress. It is a layered, emotional experiment in what happens when machines become more sophisticated while humans keep dancing, dressing strangely, falling in love, making art, laughing, and gathering together.
The performance world moves between handmade science fiction and emerging technology without resolving the tension between them. Cardboard, LEDs, bodies, video, aerial apparatus, hand-drawn characters, AI imagery, theater lights, glitches, and audience rituals all belong to the same universe.
Archive recovered
Six transmissions.
One unstable universe.
The signal begins with the first Robot Apocalypse at The Green Room in 2015 and keeps mutating—through revival, co-creation, imagined worlds, Burning Man, and portals.
Revival
The universe returns at Yucca North.
Modifications & Co-Creations
The Orpheum. A larger collaborative collision.
Worlds & Wastelands
Five worlds, live acts, projections, AI art, and AR.
Hearts & Hardware
Burning Man Center Camp. Love, control, and resistance.
Portals
A compact festival chapter built around joy, wishes, and collective play.
Human presence confirmed
The universe is live.
The illustrations establish the mythology. The performers, handmade objects, live discoveries, and people in the room make it real.
Human + Machine
The future is handmade.
The future is computational.
Human signal
Machine signal
Human presence confirmed
The audience is not outside the story.
Audiences arrive in robot dress, answer characters, encounter projected worlds, experiment with AR, and join rituals of resistance and play. Every gathering changes the signal.
Robot Apocalypse is built with a cross-disciplinary community of performers, artists, technicians, designers, organizers, venues, and gloriously strange humans.
Future transmission
This machine has not reached its final form.
The next phase imagines a multi-city Robot Apocalypse with deeper scenic worlds, expanded participation, ambitious projection and interactive environments, fair artist compensation, and professional documentation.
Major support would not simply enlarge the same show. It would unlock creative possibilities previously constrained by personal financial risk, fabrication resources, technology access, and production capacity.
Unlock the machine