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We are developing a performance project that will raise awareness about what it means to live with dementia and other neurodegenerative conditions.
The performance project aims to build understanding of neurodegenerative conditions and to create a public space together that is receptive to neurodegenerative illnesses like dementia.
It will bring together people with lived experience of dementia and neurodegenerative conditions and their families and carers, along with researchers, artists and the wider public.
How immersive performance can be a tool for engagement
Immersive theatre removes the stage and immerses audiences within the performance itself. This often involves a site specific location and allows audiences to converse with the actors and interact with their surroundings, creating a potentially more intense and ‘life like’ experience.
We can use this theatrical form to bring people closer to a lived experience of dementia and neurodegenerative conditions. This will potentially enable people to experience physical, verbal, emotional barriers so that they (in a supported and artistic way) question themselves and their assumptions.
Virtual reality (VR) technologies have the potential to deepen this experience. VR is moving into the mainstream and merging gaming with immersive theatre experiences. Over the past few years VR technologies have become more affordable and available, and there is now a range of exciting work emerging by contemporary theatre practitioners and choreographers using VR to take audiences into new immersive worlds.