stories from the makers: creating pervasive performance
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Mari Thynne PhD Candidate – HighWire DTC E: [email protected]
Stories from the Makers:Creating immersive performance
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Contents1. insights into recent study of 11 immersive theatre
and pervasive media performance practitioners2. share experiences of some of the theatre makers
who integrate digital technology and live performance through a scholarly ‘sense-making’ lens
3. question time 4. forum discussion on the main findings
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Topic:what is immersive/pervasive/interactive performance?
Complex and individual No clear definition to date
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Research DesignTheoretical consideration1. Sensemaking properties (Weick 1995, 2001, 2005)
Identity; Retrospection; enacting environments; Social; Ongoing; Cues, Plausibility2. Theatricality within Design Thinking (Pine and Gilmore 1999)
‘we do not mean to present the work of design as theatre, it is not a metaphor but a model, a focus on the dramatic nature of design’ (pg:157)
Triangulation of data collection:• Interviews, face to face and via Skype – same 15 set questions• Desk research – online data• Reflections of researcher
Analysis• Interviews made into stage scripts to distance from researcher perspective - developing
‘theatricality’ notion of Pine and Gilmore • Sensemaking sought in scripts, online text and researcher reflections – including verbs, actions,
evidence of making of sense
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Data Set
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Horses
Theatre allegory interweaves verbatim study responses into short seven-part series: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCExwt6EIz2DvSvQiRw6EKag/videos
The aim: communicate final perceptions of the researcher in a distinct subjective and surreal art form.
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Main Findings 1. Innovation developing out of tensions - interdisciplinary
production team from different creative backgrounds
2. A growing number of hybrid identities – production team confirmed many have second jobs i.e. in advertising, design or academia
3. Funding and budgeting - compromise used owing to financial restrictions even though ‘aesthetic’ vital to create a ‘real’ experience for audience
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• Limitations of the study Longitude study and/or more practitioners offer a stronger caseAlternatively, a deeper study i.e. ethnography or in-depth case study
• Recommendations for further study There is little theoretical work on this emerging genre. My PhD aims to explore further the three main findings via an exploratory case-study of before, during and after, production of The Raucous Collective’s ‘The Stick House’ to answer the research question:
‘How, and to what extent, do identity power and values effect the immersive theatre production process?
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Finding 3: Funding and Budgeting
New economic models needed?
What are your thoughts?
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Forum discussion:
Sharon Clark - The Raucous CollectiveRik Lander - Freelance Writer & Creative DirectorRosie Poebright - Splash & RippleMari Thynne - PhD Researcher & Freelance
Experimental Theatre Maker
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Mari Thynne E: [email protected]