Special Performance: The Kepler Story -- Second Performance

We are excited to announce our first ever prime-time Sunday evening performance series taking place in the Morrison Planetarium - the world's largest all digital dome. As a one-man performance with dramatic supporting music and full dome visuals, the Morrison Planetarium in collaboration with Motion Institute presents The Kepler Story - an innovative, immersive performance piece about the life and story of 17th-century astronomer and mystic Johannes Kepler. The story of his life, including his discovery of the three laws of planetary motion which removed Earth once and for all from its position at the center of the Universe, took an even more dramatic turn when his mother was arrested for witchcraft and Kepler was forced to defend her. On the way to her trial, reading Galileo's father's book on harmony, Kepler experienced one of his greatest epiphanies about the harmony of the universe.

History, religion, passion and science intersect in this remarkable individual's life with a performance in the Academy's planetarium that has the capacity to elicit moments of transcendence as it enlivens your senses and stimulates your mind.  We will explore Kepler's unique capacity to integrate a worldview steeped in mysticism with a rigorous scientific perspective based on observation and experimentation.