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Avant Garden - Mixed Reality in Four ActsPost an Event »
Little Boxes Theater
August 20 - August 20, 2014Info
1661 Tennessee Street Suite 2S San Francisco, CA Google Map »
Avant Garden is a mixed reality theater performance by Artistic Director and Virtual Worlds Producer DC Spensley. Mixed reality in this sense means a combination of live and virtual reality dance performers interacting by means of a rear projection screen. The virtual team is called the ZERO SkyDancers, an ensemble that has been performing professionally since 2006 at art biennials, festivals and commissions, log in from all over North America using their computers to rehearse and perform together in simulated space. Imagine people controlling puppets over the internet all together on a stage similar to a video game environment. The live dancer (physically present) Kathleen Moore (of Dance Generators) performs in front of the screen allowing her to interact with the virtual performers and stage set.
Avant Garden is a combination of avant grade and walled garden and refers to the challenge presented in offering virtual reality theater to a physical audience. Avant Garden is an experiment in doing exactly that: sharing virtual theater with a live audience.
Avant Garden, a mixed reality performance presented by DC Spensley
Evening of Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Featuring the ZEROG SkyDancers and Kathleen Moore as “The Gardener”
Original Musical Score by Juniverse Stockholm
Technical Director Sasun Steinbeck