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Velocity Lab: US-UK Telepresence Workshop
DESCRIPTION
Interactive technology expands theatrical space and enables live performance in a global dimension.
In a global theatre, a single performance can happen in multiple locations and time zones to achieve a unity of space and time.
In a global theatre, London actors and audience are telepresent in New York, and vice versa. Whilst London transits into night, New York continues to work in daylight. However, participants in both cities create and experience a live story in the way that people witness global political-economic events unfolding with a unity of action and consequence.
The telepresence workshop will first explore the parameters of the digital creative space and the global dimensions of storytelling through theatre games. We will develop conventions to endow the screen with the imaginative properties in live performance.
We will explore ways of keeping local and remote audiences engaged in the tension and arc of a story through the intertwining of both live and on-camera performance.
Telepresence workshop participants will also collaborate on developing a performance with the working title of “Comedy of Terrors.” Based on mistaken identity plot ideas from Shakespeare, Plautus, and others, this format touches upon contemporary issues of stolen identity, loss of identity, lack of identity, and the blurring of identity endemic in the digital age.
STRUCTURE
The three-part workshop will take place over the course of three months, October through December 2012. Six actors from New York City and six actors from London will experiment with telepresence in live performance.
British actors include: Claire Dargo, Daniel Gentely, Thomas Rushforth, Zara Tempest-Walters, Wendy Windle, Sophie Wyburn.
American actors: Adam McNulty, Matt Citron, Dan Cordle, Zoey Martinson, Danielle Skraastad, Leighton Bryant.
New York Location: NYU Graduate Acting Program, 721 Broadway, Room 521, NYC 10003
London Location: Google Campus London.
1) Oct 14th - 11am - 2pm EST | 4pm - 7pm GMT
2) Nov 11th - 11am - 2pm EST | 4pm - 7pm GMT
3) Dec 9th - 11am - 2pm EST | 4pm - 7pm GMT
