Digital Dance
Small Stage is passionate about bringing technology and dance together to create innovative experiences.
Our goal is to reduce barriers by making live and digital dance more accessible to a wider audience and equipping artists with digital skills.
Small Stage blends live and digital platforms to create powerful, Mixed Reality (MR) experiences. These experiences are designed to extend the life of new works and bring dance to new audiences.
Digital Dance integrates technology including Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR) and online platforms. We continue to use traditional theatrical tools, including projection, sound and lighting design.
Small Stage uses technology in the following key ways:
Create powerful dance experiences using new and innovative approaches and technologies, to better link dance, audiences and the community.
To ‘bust down the theatre walls’, by bringing dance out of traditional bricks-and-mortar venues, creating accessible outdoor dance events that allow a wide demographic to discover and interact with, in unexpected places and ways.
Reaching and initiating new audiences that are wide-ranging, youthful, diverse and representative of a public not frequently engaged in the arts and dance sector.
Building overall capacity within the sector, both through the incubation of new choreographic work and development of promising artists (both artistically and technically) through workshops, mentorships, and hands-on residencies; as well as cross sectoral collaborations and strategic partnerships, designed to build capacity in the dance community/sector.
Small Stage is extremely grateful to be funded by the Canada Council ~ Digital Strageties Fund.
Without this support, our work in the digital realm would not be possible.
