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"Devising Performances with Virtual Scenery"
five day workshop for universities and colleges

This 5-day workshop provides students with an in-depth experience of creating their own performance using a ‘virtual reality theatre’. Students get to play with the complex dialogue that ensues between model design, a soundscape and the choreography of both the virtual scenery and the live performers. There is a strong focus on how to mould their material through an open creative process into a product. Prior to the workshop, it is preferable that students have selected a theme and gathered images, for inspiration, and props and costumes that they might want to play with and emailed us their ideas.
The areas of exploration in this workshop include:

Framing the virtual space with the physical composition.
How to create a sense of unified movement between the virtual and the physical.
How different models engender different artistic possibilities.
Exploring realistic, abstract, surreal or fantastic relationships between the virtual and the physical.
The narrative and/or metaphors created by the visual union of virtual and physical.
How the soundscape can create a relationship between the virtual and physical movement.
Allowing coincidence and accident to be seen as a creative opportunity.


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