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| Performance Outline |
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1. Welcome Show
Eight highly entertaining robots invite visitors to enter a world of the future in the opening show. The robots bring the stage alive with a dialogue with the emcee and interaction with visitors.
- Following a fun welcome talk with the emcee, a trumpet-playing robot opens the show with a moving solo. (Song to be played: “Miagete goran yoru no hoshi wo” (Look up and see the night stars).)
- Seven music-playing robots make an entrance as a marching band and perform. (Song to be played: “When the Saints Go Marching In”)
- The DJ robot will carry on a dialogue with the emcee while interacting with members of the audience.
- Seven music-playing robots and one DJ robot take the stage, for a total of eight robots.
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Conceptual Image of the Welcome Show |
2. Main Show
- Single passenger “i-unit” concept vehicles and a mountable, walking “i-foot” robot join with dancers in a performance that will introduce the concepts of “The Wonders of Living and Moving Freely” and “The New Relationship Between People and Vehicles.”
- A 360-degree large (roughly 15 x 135 m) screen will surround the audience, and together with other stage equipment, present the audience with scenes of nature and the society of tomorrow. Spectators will experience the excitement from the very center of the action.
- Visitors will be treated to choreographed automatic driving and formation driving executed by the “i-unit” vehicles and a performance by an “i-foot” robot. These performances will highlight “Harmony with Society” – a society free of traffic accidents and traffic jams, and in which the elderly and those with disabilities can achieve independent mobility – in addition to future technologies that meet individuals’ particular needs, and possibilities for future vehicles.
- In addition to the “i-unit” and “i-foot,” video images of various other types of future mobility will be shown, highlighting possibilities for future society’s “optimal mobility.”
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Conceptual Image of the Welcome Show |
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3. Producer/Show Director |
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Yves Pépin |
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Profile
Born in France in 1943, Pépin is known for his fantastic, grand-scale productions. Head of the Paris-based production company eca2, he has successfully executed numerous multimedia and large-scale programs at various global events, expositions and theme parks.
Pépin’s representative works include the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1998 World Cup in France and the 1999-2000 Millennium Celebration spectacle at the Eiffel Tower. |
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