Professor Brian Cox to bring brand-new live show ‘Emergence’ to Sheffield’s Utilita Arena – how to get tickets
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From black holes to snowflakes, Emergence is set to take showgoers on an intricate journey
After performing his sell-out, record-breaking show ‘Horizons’ to nearly half a million people across the world, Professor Brian Cox is back with a new world tour and it’s coming to Sheffield’s Utilita Arena in October.
In EmergenceProfessor Brian Cox celebrates the profound complexity of our cosmos while exploring the fundamental physical principles that shaped its development. Spanning the most colossal cosmic phenomena, the vast galactic networks weaving through space, to the intricate web of terrestrial ecosystems and the mysterious structure of the human brain.
From black holes to snowflakes, Emergence is set to take showgoers on an intricate journey where we observe a world of dazzling complexity underpinned by magnificent simplicity.
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In what is set to be a stunning visual and aural spectacular, Brian poses the question:
How did a quarter of a million-year-old species of great apes on one small planet amongst trillions orbiting around a middle-aged star in an average galaxy figure all this out, guided by curiosity, mathematics and an aesthetic sense of symmetry and beauty?
For this stunning visual and aural spectacular, Professor Brian Cox worked with a world-leading team of creatives for Emergence. Multiple award winning artist PJ Harvey wrote and recorded an original piece of music, ‘Voyager’, for the show, working with Academy Award-winning composer Dario Marianelli, who composed other original music including ‘Kepler’s Snowflake’.
Ahead of the brand new live show, a brand-new behind the scenes video gives us a look at the recording of the music for the show with Academy Award-winning composer Dario Marianelli and multi award-winning musician PJ Harvey.
Visual effects and graphics were developed alongside Emmy Award-winning director Nic Stacey together with digital artist Erik Wernquist, while branding was crafted by Peter Saville CBE, the celebrated art director famed for his iconic work alongside Factory Records.
Showgoers can expect a visual and aural bombardment of the senses as Emergence peels back the curtain and takes them on both a sensory and scientifically analytical voyage of discovery…
Professor Brian Cox said: “I’ve loved creating Emergence - it’s the most ambitious live show I’ve ever written. I’ve been very lucky to collaborate with a wonderful group of scientists, musicians, filmmakers and graphic artists to bring cosmology, biology, philosophy and history to the largest and most advanced LED screens available, with the best sound and lights I could find. I hope the show is an all-encompassing experience, and I hope it leaves everyone, whether they love science or music or history, or simply contemplating the beauty of Nature, with something new to think about.”
Emergence will be performed at Utilita Arena, Sheffield, on Thursday, October 15, 2026
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