PlayOn! Bulletin, Issue One, June 2022

New Storytelling with Nz.1
one June 2022
issue
Technologies
Immersive
HALF OF THE
PROJECT IS
DONE.
HOW PLAYON! - PARTNERS
LOOK INTO THE FUTURE?
Motion- or movement-tracking?
For a theatre practitioner these terms
seem very similar. In reality though
these methods mean quite different
possibilities, problems and even technological
bases. The first step is to decide,
which road to choose, the second step is
to find a working balance between tech
and art. VAT Teater (EE)
The living challenge of creating spaces
in which artistic research and aesthetic
production are related to each other,
in which people of different artistic and
technical provenance experiment on
a sensual and meaningful theatre of
the future. Akademie für Theater und
Digitalität (DE)
Theatre as an agile, creative, flexible art
form, that brings people together, helps
them communicate, problem solve
and find understanding and common
ground is as relevant as it ever was. And
smart uses of technology within theatre
are maybe the rocket fuel for enabling
this connection and understanding and
problem-solving ability to spread around
the planet, at a time when we need those
things the most. Pilot Theatre (UK)
Our goal is to be a unique center for
impulse-giving art and at the same time
to develop it further as an interface between
contemporary art and a changing
society. Theater Dortmund (DE)
We´re focusing on audience development
and trying to find open forms or
digital tools that immerse audiences into
our storytelling. Landestheater Linz (AT)
We are finding ways to apply cutting
edge technology research to help
storytellers in film, games and theatre.
University of York | Digital Creativity
Labs (UK)
the most
tragic
form of loss
isn't the loss of security;
it's the loss of the
capacity
to imagine that things
could be ­
different.
ernst bloch - german philosopher
HOW DO
WE PlayOn!
DIRK NELDNER
(ARTISTIC DIRECTOR PLAYON!)
With PlayOn! we aim to establish new
links between the theatre artists, the
professional training and the industrial
sectors. We are creating synergies
by pooling resources, by receiving
high impact training, and by multilevel
networking to benefit most.
Within 5 years we will under take
experiments and research in how
theatres can develop the content and
aesthetics of their work as an artistic
asset. We will establish professional
connections with the digital industry.
New technologies always need
new ideas (content) for application,
practical and playful use. That’s our
speciality as theatres. And in this way,
theatres face the challenges without
losing their task of communicating
and engaging with the audience.
Content in combination with technology
can become a win-win situation
for all players.
IMPRINT
Newspaper one | PlayOn! New storytelling
with immersive technologies
Editor Odette Bereska, Lucy Hammond
Layout & Design sign.Berlin
Communications GmbH | www.sign-berlin.de
Printed by Druckhaus Sportflieger
Picture Index Richard Hurford (UK),
Klaudina Schubert (PL), Jörg Metzner (DE),
Kari Ylitalo (FI)
© PlayOn! New storytelling with immersive
technologies is a European Theatre Network
supported by the European Commission. The
views expressed in this publication are only
the views of the authors. The Commission cannot
be held responsible for any use, which may
be made of the information contained therein.
Contact Odette Bereska | odette@play-on.eu
Project Coordinator VAT Teater | vatteater.ee
Our current challenges are to integrate the
needs of the different technologies with
the standard production methods, and to
integrate and bring together the different
audiences (more attracted to technology
or traditional theatre) on new paths.
Elsinor Centro di Produzione Teatrale (IT)
Our main goal is to find a way to
survive as a cooperative and as a
collective of artists, while trying to
transgress the borders between rural
and urban, adult and child, schooled or
popular, national or universal, dramatic,
narrative or poetic, digital or analogue.
Teatro O Bando (PT)
We look forward to the challenges and
fresh perspectives offered by the two
international projects – PlayOn! and
MAPPING – that are running with our
participation, in continuing a series of
highly productive co-operations.
Kolibri Színház (HU)
We are looking for new artistic tools
to make our theatre more open for
every kind of audience. We try to find a
balance between traditional structures of
theatre performances and new forms of
participation. Teatr Ludowy (PL)
Our goal is to develop and produce a
program that connects with, and initiates
development within a diverse audience
in the county of Møre and Romsdal.
Teatret Vårt (NO)