The No Proscenium Podcast

This week we are joined by the dynamic Achinta S. McDaniel, Founding Artistic Director of Blue13 Dance Company whose all new work Soliloquy: Immersive Experience comes to LA's Heritage Square Museum May 31 - June 2. This marks Blue13's return to Heritage Square after the triumphant Shaadi in 2021, a highlight of that year.We get into the themes of the new show, how working in immersive & site-specific compares to other mediums for dance, and if her students at the Glorya Kaufman School of Dance at USC see the immersive world as part of their futures.SHOW NOTESSoliloquy: Immersive ExperienceBlue 13 Dance CompanyBroken Bone Bathtub: The Documentary & LA Immersive MeetupNoPro Patreon Backer DiscountThe Next Stage Immersive Summit 2025The Immersive Experience Institute Newsletter

Michael Epstein, founder of Walking Cinema, joins us to talk about The Fillmore Eclipse.While Walking Cinema is well known for their intricate audio based walking history experiences, this is their first fully staged immersive performance based experience… one that like all of their work taps into the local history of the setting.SHOW NOTESThe Fillmore EclipseWalking CinemaLife & TrustHollywood FringeParticle InkBroken Bone Bathtub: The Documentary & LA Immersive MeetupNoPro Patreon Backer Discount

This week on the show Rory Mitchell of The Mercantile is here to talk with us about his new Augmented Reality narrative experience The Tent, which made a splash at SXSW this year and is now on the festival circuit.SHOW NOTESThe TentThe MercantileBroken Bone Bathtub Documentary/LA MeetupBBB Doc NoPro Patreon Backer Discount InfoMeow Wolf supercharged the way we experience art. Is L.A. ready for the wild ride? (LA Times)

David Rosenberg & Glen Neath, Artistic Directors of DARKFIELD return to the podcast to talk about their latest work, the interactive audio experience ARCADE. A twist on the company's signature immersive audio storytelling formula, ARCADE features a branching narrative as you guide your avatar through a world ravaged by endless war.SHOW NOTESARCADEDARKFIELDThe Los Angeles Immersive InvitationalWorld Premiere Screening in LA: The Broken Bone Bathtub Documentary

This week on the show NoPro’s Chicago curator Patrick McLean hops into the host chair for a conversation with Miguel Angel Rodriguez, Co-Executive Director of Chicago’s own Albany Park Theater Project and Jennine Willett, co-artistic director of the NYC based Third Rail Projects about the two company’s ongoing collaboration over the years and its current incarnation — the immersive theatre experience Port of Entry.SHOW NOTESAlbany Park Theater ProjectThird Rail ProjectsPort of EntryThe Los Angeles Immersive Invitational

We're joined this week by Robert Farid Karimi – whose work of late has included a series of interactive analog immersive game experiences involving topics such as community-police relations and the illegal detention of Central American immigrant youth – and who is the co-director of the Public Practice + Generative Play StudioLab and serves as Assistant Professor in the Music, Dance and Theater department at Arizona State University.It's a fantastic discussion about meaning-making.SHOW NOTESRobert Farid KarimiWorlds In Play: The Mint Experience!LA Immersive Invitational

This week it’s an AFTER DARK style episode featuring host Noah Nelson and NoPro Arts Editor Laura Hess as they have a conversation that covers the AI works in the LA Art show, the use of AI in Immersive, a bit on the Wonka debacle because we recorded this like three weeks ago, and the overall nature of immersive work particularly as it applies to the art world.

This week on the show we’re joined by Ivan Carić and Emily Carding of The Key of Dreams, the follow up to the hit overnight immersive experience in the Welsh countryside which was reviewed for us last year by Ellery Weil, who also joins us on the pod for the first time.The Key of Dreams draws on the literary tradition of weird fiction to create a strange and thrilling experience in Treowen Manor an early 17th-century manor house in Monmouthshire where guests stay overnight.We dive in deep on what goes into delving into the realms of the uncanny in a historic locale in this week’s interview.SHOW NOTESThe Key of Dreams

This week on the show: we reveal the winner of the 2024 No Proscenium Audience & Editor Awards.Check the site for the full list of Nominees & Winners.SHOW NOTESThe 2024 No Proscenium Audience & Editor AwardsThe 2024 Los Angeles Immersive Invitational