For more than 20 years, the Occidental New Works Festival has paired student playwrights and actors with professional guest directors and performers. Focused on writer-centric rehearsal and performance, the festival provides a real-world experience of new play development as it is practiced in major theaters around the country.
lovelike is a mixed-reality musical performance about losing yourself to loneliness and longing. The project uses motion capture and VR as part of an interface that allows avatars to interact with virtual objects as proxies for effects envelopes and instruments in audio software. Throughout the duration of the performance, Jenna Caravello and Celia Hollander collaborate on a musical composition on stage together, Jenna as an embodied avatar in a projected virtual world and Celia organizing incoming clips in live audio software.
The Media Arts and Culture Department and the Womxn of Cinema and Television Club present a screening of the new political sci fi thriller I.S.S. (2024) followed by a Q&A with director and Oxy alum Gabriela Cowperthwaite '93.
The Media Arts and Culture Department and the Womxn of Cinema and Television Club present a screening of the sci-fi thriller Gray Matter followed by a Q&A with Oxy alum and 2023 Project Greenlight winner
The Media Arts and Culture Department and the Womxn of Cinema and Television Club present a screening of the new time travel drama Ingress
This is day 2 of a two-day, six-hour foundations course for stage combat covering the core concepts of safety, story, and style - as defined by the Fight Directors Canada. Participants will learn the fundamentals of unarmed stage combat in a consent forward and trauma informed course designed to arm them with the tools to keep themselves and others safe while practicing scenes with physical violence.
This is day 1 of a two-day, six-hour foundations course for stage combat covering the core concepts of safety, story, and style - as defined by the Fight Directors Canada. Participants will learn the fundamentals of unarmed stage combat in a consent forward and trauma informed course designed to arm them with the tools to keep themselves and others safe while practicing scenes with physical violence.