An immersive performance combining video games and dance-theatre
When: May 11–12
Where: Patti Strickel Harrison Theatre, Texas State University Performing Arts Center, 405 Moon St, San Marcos, TX 78666
Price: $0–50; pay-what-you-can or pay-it-forward
Tags: #dance, #gaming, #interactive, #participation
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“The Tower Is Us (A Prisoner’s Cinema) is a hypnagogic transmedia performance combining video game and live dance-theater to decode an urgent message in an unspoken language. In this interactive, immersive performance, audience participants are thrust into a world of beings without verbal language. They must attempt to learn the system of gestures that the figures employ to communicate with each other — as well as the regular people with whom they have begun increasingly making contact in our own world, with a motive and message that remains a mystery.
Participants are highly encouraged to bring fully-charged smartphones to the performance, which they will use alongside other tools that will help them piece together the clues and overcome the language barrier to make a connection.
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