Searching for the purpose to our life is a universal struggle that many of us can relate to, especially in our youth.

It’s a quest that led Noah Dach to create and direct “Tal: Beyond Imagination,” presented by Atlas Circus Company in its world premiere through July 28 at Muhlenberg Summer Music Theatre (MSMT) in the Studio Theatre, Trexler Pavilion for Theatre & Dance, Muhlenberg College, Allentown.

Dach, a Muhlenberg College, Class of 2016, graduate and adjunct professor at Muhlenberg, can understand the struggles that come with choosing between different paths in life. He wanted to tell that story in a very unique way.

Dach, who founded Atlas Circus Company in 2015, created “Tal,” a fantastical children’s theater production in which a young woman follows her passions and dreams to find her purpose.

Shantell Cruz plays the title character in a cast of 10 performers who clown, act, and perform aerial acrobatics. All are veterans of Muhlenberg’s dance and theater program.

“We thrill the audience with spectacle,” says Dach. “The main character goes on a journey through a fantastical dreamland. Different characters represent different choices in her life.”

Atlas Theatre Company has produced several other modern circus pieces, most recently “The Optimist,” presented in spring 2018 at The People’s Improv Theater, New York City. The New York Post has called the company “the new Ringling Brothers.”

Dance, clowning and aerial acrobatics are hallmarks of Atlas productions and featured heavily in “Tal.”

MSMT’s 2017 season first-ever circus production of Atlas Theatre Company’s “Wild” was also a world-premiere: a magical tale of getting lost in the woods that featured not a word of dialog, just clowning, aerial acrobatics, and some virtuoso juggling.

Dach wanted the audience fully-immersed in “Tal.”

“This show is unique in its technical demands,” Dach says. “There’s aerial in almost every single piece. It also has aspects that are ethereal and abstract and enticing to the creative mind and the impossible.”

This goal has presented particular challenges for the show’s scenic and lighting designer, Brian Pacelli.

“It’s happening in this dreamlike state, so it’s a very fluid space that can defined or loose, depending on the moment in the show,” Pacelli says. “It’s worth seeing just to see something so enormous and physical happening in a black-box space.”

“Tal is presented in full-round,” Dach says, “with the audience surrounding the stage. It’s fun and interactive. You will see your wildest daydreams coming to life. I’m excited to see the audience have to pick their jaws up off the floor.”

Dach, who received a BA in dance and business, said Muhlenberg prepared him well for a career in producing shows of this caliber. “I’m proud to have worked on such an amazing production with so many amazing people,” he says. “The music and the dance are for everyone.

“There is electronic music. There are old jazz pieces. It’s really for everyone, not just kids. Everyone can relate to finding their way through the world. ‘Tal’ is filled with the beautiful and the impossible,” Dach says.

“Tal” is recommended for adults and children ages 4 and up.

Audience members are invited to stay after the show to meet the cast, and then participate in a free 45-minute activity workshop, featuring creative play, storytelling, and circus skills.

Evening workshops will focus more on circus skills, including aerial and juggling. All ages are welcome. Reservations for the workshops are recommended.

“Tal: Beyond Imagination,” 10 a.m., 1 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday; 10 a.m., 6:30 p.m. Friday, Saturday, through July 28. Tickets: Trexler Pavilion for Theatre and Dance box office, Muhlenberg College, 2400 Chew St., Allentown; muhlenberg.edu/smt; 484-664-3333