Public Performance Projects

Cutouts of 5 performers appear on a blood spattered off-white background.

The Antigone Play by Tabia Lau, HAGS by Aaron Jan

Presented Nov, 2020 Online for Theatre@York

Audience Experience:
 - Chat room interaction
 - Streaming Video
Development Stage:
 - Academic Research
 - Public Performance

Summary of Project:

Two online plays commissioned by the Department of Theatre in the School of the Arts Media Performance and Design at York University

A monitor shows video of a scene while creative professionals work on set for The Right Way in the background.

Creator and Director: Daniele Bartolini, Produced by Daniele Bartolini, DopoLavor Teatrale (DLT), Stazione Utopia

Presented Sep 15 - 21, 2020 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

Content Types:
 - 360 Video
 - VR in headset
Technologies:
 - 180 camera
 - CleanBox
 - Expo Player
 - Occulus Go
 - VR headset
Audience Experience:
 - One to one performance
Development Stage:
 - Public Performance

Summary of Project:

Single audience immersive theatre experience with a VR prelude.

Screen shot of a 360 video bubble. There is a prominent tree and the photographers head visible against the blue background from the sky.

STEPS (Sustainable Thinking and Expression on Public Space)

Presented Summer 2020 Rowntree Mills Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Content Types:
 - 360 Video
 - AR video on mobile device
 - Photographs
Technologies:
 - Android Mobile
 - iOS Mobile
 - Maptool
 - Web App
 - YouTube
Audience Experience:
 - Community engagement
 - Geolocated XR content
Development Stage:
 - Community Engagement
 - Public Performance

Summary of Project:

Locative media map of 360 video/audio content sourced from community engagement.

Screen shot from performance of Orestes. A woman wearing a gaming headset with attached microphone looks at the screen in a video chat window. The top portion of four other people in the video chat are visible across the bottom of the image.

Written by Rick Roberts, Directed by Richard Rose

Presented Feb 3 - 14, 2021 Live Online via the Tarragon Theatre website

Audience Experience:
 - Chat room interaction
 - Streaming Video
Development Stage:
 - Public Performance

Summary of Project:

Live web-based performance of Euripides’ genre-defying classic hacked, warped and chopped — rebooted for the electronic age.

Screen shot taken on broadcasting pc during rehearsal showing OBS composite video and Skype call with dancers.

by Dancing Earth

Presented Jun 18, 2020 Livestreaming on HowlRound.tv

Audience Experience:
 - Streaming Video
Development Stage:
 - Public Performance

Summary of Project:

A dance performance composite video broadcast live on howlround.tv and YouTube.

Screen shot from using Maptool

Andrew Sempere, The Place Lab Ltd.

Presented

Audience Experience:
 - Community engagement
 - Geolocated XR content
Development Stage:
 - Community Engagement
 - Public Performance

Summary of Project:

An MIT-licensed computational tool for generating locative media projects, Maptool can be used as the basis for locative storytelling.

Two people in white painters overalls stand in front of a paint splattered wall.

Creator and Director: Daniele Bartolini, Produced by Daniele Bartolini, DopoLavor Teatrale (DLT), Instituto Italiano di Cultura

Presented Sep 18 - 29, 2019 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Content Types:
 - 360 Video
 - VR in headset
Technologies:
 - VR headset
Development Stage:
 - Public Performance

Summary of Project:

An urban immersive format designed for one audience member at a time to interact with characters hidden among the pedestrians in the downtown core and installations including dance, music, and painting.

Dancers in colourful street clothes perform on a public sidewalk near a street car stop in Kansas City.

Presented Jun 10 - Sep 10, 2019 Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, USA as part of the Art in the Loop

Content Types:
 - 360 Video
 - AR video on mobile device
Technologies:
 - Android Mobile
 - iOS Mobile
 - Maptool
 - Web App
 - YouTube
Development Stage:
 - Community Engagement
 - Public Performance

Summary of Project:

Choreographer Jane Gotch created a site-specific virtual reality dance at three Kansas City Streetcar stops and a single culminating live performance.

Sharon Reshef, dressed in black, kneels on the grass with her back to the camera.

by Sharon Reshef with Place Lab Ltd

Presented Jun 7 - 15, 2019 Prague Exhibition Grounds, Prague, Czechia as part of the Site Specific Performance Festival, Prague Quadrennial 2019,

Content Types:
 - Binaural Audio
 - Photographs
Technologies:
 - Bespoke Mobile App
 - iOS Mobile
 - Maptool
Audience Experience:
 - Geolocated XR content
 - Mobile app
Development Stage:
 - Public Performance

Summary of Project:

An interactive sound project that archives the sonic environment of the Prague Exhibition Grounds prior to PQ 2019

A performer in costume stands behind the audience member wearing a VR headset during a performance of Bury the Wren.

Created by Beth Kates & Neil Christensen

Presented Mar 29 - Apr 2, 2019 University of Calgary School of Creative and Performing Arts Alchemy Festival of Student Work

Audience Experience:
 - One to one performance
Development Stage:
 - Academic Research
 - Public Performance

Summary of Project:

An immersive one-on-one performance, Bury The Wren uses Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality, mixed with ‘Carbon’ Reality, to exhume Annie Donnelly’s voice from the grave of history. 

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