Performance
Live performance design, stage engineering, large-scale event production, spectacle architecture, and how shows are constructed to work across multiple audiences and contexts simultaneously.
2 pieces in this category
May 2026
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17 May 7 min
How Eurovision's Voting System Let a Bulgarian Song Win Without English
Bulgaria won Eurovision 2026 with a mostly Bulgarian-language song. The dual voting system—professional juries plus public televote—reveals what cross-cultural performance actually rewards when words can't carry meaning.
How competitive artistic performance works across language and cultural boundaries -
14 May 7 min
How FIFA's World Cup Halftime Show Engineers a Billion-Person Moment
FIFA is adding a Super Bowl-style halftime show to the 2026 World Cup final. The engineering challenge: design a performance that works for 80,000 in the stadium, a billion on screens, and dozens of cultures simultaneously.
How spectacle design works at global scale — the architecture of mega-event performance