Call for Artists – 2021 Summer Dance and Music Event
June 2, 2021XR Project Examples
OrpheusVR is a new operatic experience that is currently being developed by Debi Wong, Youhan Guan, Conrad Sly & Brian Topp.
This single-user experience is a new virtual take on the myth of Orpheus & Eurydice, that plays like a choose-your-own-adventure opera with musical and moral implications.
Escape is a one on one interactive performance exploring themes of escapism, psychogeography, corporeality and the dissociation from the body that comes with an increase of online interaction. This individualized experience is delivered through your phone between midnight and 3am and draws your attention to your physical body in space, exploring the potentials and restrictions of both real and virtual worlds.
CREDITS:
Written and designed by: Julianne Chapple
Performed digitally by: Maxine Chadburn, Katie Findlay, Ed Spence and Jen Yan
Accessibility consultant: Kristy Kassie
ISOLATA is a series of mobile web-based interactive audio games from It’s Not A Box Theatre, designed to be experienced entirely in your home. We begin with a trilogy of thrillers, each an original story from a different subgenre, all exploring connection and trust in our collective isolation. If you are not afraid to play in the dark, all you need is a smartphone and a few household items. You can play alone or with others (online or in the same home) depending on the episode, and they are entirely free to play.
Synopsis: Some children never grow up. A simple game of hide-and-seek ended Danny’s life when he was seven years old, and now …
CREDITS:
Written by: Katelyn Polischuk
Directed by: Torien Cafferata
Length: ~30 min
Players: 1-2 (must play in same home)
Props: candle + lighter or matches
Content Warnings: child death, su*cide, drowning, implied intimate abuse
An immersive experience exploring the borders that divide and unite us, within the framework of a live podcast. Immersive and interactive theatre, innovatively weaving projection, virtual realtity and the theatre space as sites for the performance.
CREDITS:
Created and Performed by Mariel Marshall, Peter Musante, Lucy Simic and Stephen O’Connell
Stage Director / Production Manager: Lisa Humber
Stage Manager (Progress Festival): Gloria Mok
Creative Technologist: Jacob Niedzwiecki
Projection & VR Operator: Kaitlin Hickey
Lighting Designer: Patrick Lavender
The Last Minutes Before Mars (2020)
The Last Minutes Before Mars is a mixed-reality immersive 360° video and live performance that dangles the audience above a vat of bubbling ethical considerations, asking them to take a position, any position.
ORIGINAL CREDITS
The Original Production of The Last Minutes Before Mars at Schauspielhaus Bochum in 2020 was:
Conceived and Directed by Darren O’Donnell
Film Produced by Alice Fleming
Design by Sorcha Gibson
Music Composition by Isola Music
with Co-Devisors Konstantin Bock, Alice Fleming, Tina Fance, Jana Eiting, Chiara Prodi, Kiera O’Brien, Thule Van Den Dam, Sara Guttadauro, Sara Ben Hamouda, Andrada Ciccotto, Fjoralba Qerimaj, Jerwin Mostiero, Morena Marra, Genny De Leon, Elisa Fasiello, Mervin Fajardo, Roberto Do Carmo, Lynn Dokoohaki, Joanna Gawor, Eeske Hahn, Christopher Rocholl, Emma Rose, Pascal Ulrich, Sonja Vallot & Fi Nicholson.
A collaboration with Luke Garwood, You are swimming here is a site responsive installation. Using geolocative and target-based Augmented Reality (AR), it is an extension of the performance work LOT X, which was presented as part of a co-presentation between Harbourfront’s TORQUE and DanceWorks’ Mainstage seasons in June 2019. You are swimming here is experienced outdoors on the East Campus of Harbourfront Centre.
CREDITS:
digital designer + developer Luke Garwood – lukegarwood.ca
choreography + direction Heidi Strauss
video + sound design Jeremy Mimnagh
artistic producer Rachel Penny
original LOT X wall Digital Design Jacob Niedzwiecki
performers Nimikii Couchie, Alana Elmer, Anna Finkel, Luke Garwood, Lukas Malkowski, Pulga Muchochoma, Naishi Wang
VR 360 Dance Film. Captured offshore on intertidal mudflats near Vancouver, Tidal Traces is a collaboration between new-media artist Nancy Lee and choreographer Emmalena Fredriksson. The two merged their practices through a year-long artist interdisciplinary Dancelab residency at The Dance Centre to explore the opportunities VR offers for viewing and experiencing dance
CREDITS:
Director – Nancy Lee
Choreographer – Emmalena Fredriksson
Dancers – Lexi Vajda, Zhara Shahab and Rianne Švelnis
Technical Director – Olivier Leroux
Picture Editor – Nancy Lee
Sound Designer – Kiran Bhumber
Music “Submergence” composed by Kiran Bhumber
Title Design – Eli Muro
Costume Designer – Adam-Lin Bungag
Hair and Make-up Artist – Min-Jee Mowat