This time, it will transform a former Office Depot at The Waterfront in Homestead into “a theatrical multimedia playground” with a series of video environments produced by resident dancer Dane Toney. Its new evening-length show, “If | Maybe | Then,” opens Thursday for a 14-performance run through April 29.
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This show sounds so amazing. I loved hearing about the collaboration that took place with Carnegie Mellon University and the media that’s involved in this show, I think it’s a great connection of CMU with surrounding companies because we often pride ourselves as being present in the community, especially with the recent expansion into Oakland. I think that turning an old Office Depot into a theater space just inherently calls for experimentation, and that’s what the Attack company sounds like they’re doing. I do really hope to see this show, and I hope other artists can be inspired by the creativity and different look at the world this show is bound to have. It’s also more interpretive for the viewers because it is a dance piece, and often dance allows for more room for interpretation. I also liked how at the end of the article, they said they hope the lobby will be buzzing with conversations about what just took place.
This is so cool! It solves a big problem with VR- that if you want movement you really want the person in the VR headset to actually move around. But that becomes problematic because then you have to find an open space that can be controlled from outside people wandering in and ideally wouldn’t be in a forest for tripping hazards. But using an abandoned Home Depot is perfect. The cost of renting it is probably really low since it’s not being used by any one else, and it’s huge. It’s literally a warehouse. I’m impressed that this is a theatre putting on a VR show because every audience member needs their own VR headset. I wonder if their going to go the cheap route and use one of those cardboard boxes for your phone or if they are going to be real VR headsets. Also, the article talks about audience members interacting with the technology, do I wonder how that will play in to the VR parts of the performance.
The concept of this show is absolutely amazing, and exactly the kind of awesome innovation we can expect to see theater and other interactive and immersive theatrical experiences trying out in the future for years to come. It reminds me a lot of the things we do in our own warehouse space in CMU, and what kinds of things we may be able to use in the future. Combining these spaces with a new field of media design that is constantly growing and changing and being shaped by experimentation like this lends itself to new types of theatrical experiences we may never even have considered before - this one, for example, is using VR that is most often thought of as a gaming console or as being used for PTSD therapy. I'm really excited to see where these new technologies take us, and to work with people to make those creative new futures using media and technological advancements.
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