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A.L.I.C.E. - Performance as Research during a Pandemic
Date
April 2023
Location
Texas A&M University
Date
2020-2021
Project type
Devised Theatre Performance
Role
Director, Performer, Set and Lighting Designer
1st Undergraduate thesis, started Fall of 2020 after choreographic research project sparked a disproportionate emotional response.
Viewers were invited into an immersive performance, asked to put on an approximation of full PPE gear, and view and interact with a performer.
Abstract:
How is the continued COVID-19 pandemic interfering with the live art and entertainment industry? Embarking on performance as research and making art about world events while they occur instead of a reactive piece made after those events have ended, creates a particular kind of knowledge. The research and development process for the live, immersive performance, A.L.I.C.E., allowed for unique insights and experimentation with light, time, movement, text, costuming, context, alienation effects, liminality, mediation, auto-poetic feedback loops, technology, and the fourth wall. While the lessons learned about immersive performance are useful, just as important are observations about how we interact with technology, touch and other human beings during a devastating global health crisis.
