unfortunately, this isn’t an open invitation because space is limited in the IDM lab. there will be more events, however.

A Telepresent Improv Workshop:

What’s it like to share a stage with people who are hundreds of miles away? Let’s find out.

Every hour of every day, network television shows unite far-flung people and places with live video connections. Until recently, the technology necessary for such streams was too costly for small theaters. Now, the software is free, the cameras are cheap and bandwidth is abundant. It’s time to bring telepresence to improvisational theater.

On Saturday, November 19th, the Integrated Digital Media Institute and Dirty South Improv Theater will host a workshop/symposium on telepresence in improvisational theater. This event will bring together improvisers in Chapel Hill, NC, and New York, NY. In essence, we will be joining two performance spaces with live two-way video. On each stage, there will be a projection of the video stream from the other location. We’ll open the connection and and do some improv. We’ll try different longforms, e.g., the Armando, La Ronde, and different ways of relating to the performers on the other stage, then talk about it. What works? What doesn’t? Who’s got the funniest lag joke when the stream stutters?

Come play, come watch. Join the conversation.

Saturday, Nov. 19
2 to 6 pm: improv and discussion
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Integrated Digital Media Lab
Polytechnic University
Brooklyn Campus
6 Metro Tech Center
Rogers Hall room 207
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DSI Comedy Theater @ Carr Mill Mall
(Entrance on dock behind Elmo’s Diner)
200 N. Greensboro St., Suite B-11
Carrboro, NC 27510

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