Multi-media productions are all the rage these days, but none of them are quite as multi as And All the Question Marks Started to Sing, the latest work from Norwegian art collective Verdensteatret, which will be performed at Dance Theater Workshop Feb. 24–27.

Wayne Ashley, who is co-presenting the piece under the aegis of his new initiative FuturePerfect, assures us that the familiarity of multi-media productions is turned on its head here. “You will have seen some of this in different places, but this is one of those companies that bring together really disparate media and melds them,” he says.

And All the Question Marks certainly contains more than the usual forms of media. “This is probably one of the most hybrid works I’ve seen in a long time,” Ashley says. “It brings together a whole cluster of experiences in the same space and time. It’s going to be a hard electronic music concert. It’s going to be kinetic sculpture. It’s going to be a theater, and it’s going to be a shadow puppet experience.”

And All the Question Marks Started to Sing, the latest work from Verdensteatret.

Described in the press release as “a rich landscape of kinetic and electromechanical objects, or what the company calls ‘animation-machines,’” the focal point of the evening sprawls across the stage and into the wings as it combines sound, video and sculptures into a cohesive whole.

“There are a total of 13 members in this collective, who orchestrate all the parts of this machine,” Ashley says. “There are all kinds of wheels and levers and mechanisms and pulleys [operated] by performers on stage. And there’s a whole other set of crews who are connected to sensors and computers, so they are also part of the machine.”

Judging from a clip of the show posted online, And All the Question Marks looks to be one of the more unusual and immersive presentations in recent memory. It may, in fact, manage the feat of putting Verdensteatret on the tip of your tongue.

FuturePerfect 2011: The New York Premiere of Verdensteatret’s And All the Question Marks Started to Sing from FuturePerfect on Vimeo.