Masterclass: Interactive and Immersive Performance

During The Lab Collective's Masterclass we will explore the mechanisms of generating dialogue with an audience, developing characters for interactive performance together with ways to structure and record your work.  You'll be led by practitioners with over 20 years of experience in creating interactive and immersive performance, who in addition to their performances with The Lab Collective have also created solo work for CPT, worked with Punchdrunk, Boomtown Fair and Emergency Exit Arts and trained students at Rose Bruford College, Central School of Speech and Drama, UEL and the University of Birmingham.

Over the course of a day we will unpack:

• Tools which offer meaningful interactions, intimacy, choice and direction for an audience in response to character, space and world of the piece.
• Tools to design interactive space, and realise the role of the audience within it. 
• Creating character for interactive performance, and develop an understanding of their function within an immersive world.
• How to develop working scripts for interactive performance, which gives space for the ever changing environment and the unknown offerings of an audience

These key skills enrich interactions, and bring a strong live element to performances to create meaningful and satisfying content whether you're making a large scale immersive show, or an intimate one on one performance, and helping you to create fully developed and well rounded  characters so you can feel confident to control the audience and their experience in a way that contributes to the three dimensional world of the show.

Key Information:

• This workshop session is aimed at performance makers, directors and performers looking to develop skills in creating interactive and immersive performance 
• It is suitable for all levels of experience
• The workshop will be split between practical group tasks, exercises and discussion 
• The session will be led by Natalie Scott and Antigoni Spanou
• If you have any questions, concerns, additional needs or access requirements please contact us in advance 

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

COLAB Bankside, Park Street, London, United Kingdom