YOU IN THE NEWS
ERICA WOMACK
YOU, an immersive, interactive dance production choreographed by Graham Brown is running a total of six times at the Rose Wagner Black Box over this last weekend of January. This performance invites the audience member you, (and me) to enter into the space and play a role in what is taking place.
YOU, an immersive, interactive dance production choreographed by Graham Brown is running a total of six times at the Rose Wagner Black Box over this last weekend of January. This performance invites the audience member you, (and me) to enter into the space and play a role in what is taking place.
Immersive theater, a genre-bending theatrical style that blurs the lines between audience and performer, has exploded in popularity in the U.S. over the past several years.
There are seven immersive shows running in New York City alone, including "Sleep No More," a hallmark production by British theater company Punchdrunk that wordlessly leads audiences through six floors of a Chelsea warehouse to tell the story of Macbeth.
This week, Utah choreographer and Brigham Young University dance professor Graham Brown will initiate Salt Lake City with his own brand of immersive dance-theater, a work three years in development titled "You."
JACOB STRINGER | JANUARY 29 2015
Immersive theater experiences, like the recent and very popular Sleep No More run in New York City, are often huge productions staged over many hours in multistoried warehouse spaces. Choreographer Graham Brown wanted to create a similar energy, but the challenge was to do so in a smaller, more intimate black-box theater.
Immersive theater experiences, like the recent and very popular Sleep No More run in New York City, are often huge productions staged over many hours in multistoried warehouse spaces. Choreographer Graham Brown wanted to create a similar energy, but the challenge was to do so in a smaller, more intimate black-box theater.
The NextNOW Festival at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center has a wonderful line-up of performances running through this Sunday, September 14th at the gorgeous arts space on the University of Maryland campus. I was lucky to catch theNextDANCE performance, free to the public, at 9 pm and witness a show of choreography and performances by current students, alumni, and faculty in a celebratory setting.
When Graham Brown, founder of Salt Lake’s dance improvisation company Movement Forum, left town in 2010 to pursue a master’s degree in dance at the University of Maryland, few would have guessed his return three years later would be as an assistant professor of dance at Brigham Young University. Perhaps more surprising is that his hire puts BYU in the spotlight as a cultural innovator with brown’s evening-length work titled "You."