Collaborative Solutions for the Performing Arts: A Telepresence Stage

表演艺术专业人员必须合作创作、排练和表演。COVID-19对共享空间和身体接触的限制现在使他们无法有效工作。该项目将重构和定制传统的网络会议技术，以创建创新的性能空间，实现在共享的在线环境中的协作，我们称之为远程呈现阶段。远程表演者的实时视频图像被合并到虚拟舞台布景中，因此参与者似乎在同一个在线空间中共存。这使演员和舞者能够在家中、工作室、剧院或其他远程地点模拟现场，以推进在线创作、排练和表演。来自媒体和表演艺术背景的项目团队汇集了他们30多年来开发现场网络表演研究和实践的知识和经验。他们将在英国布莱顿大学、华盛顿特区的第三空间网络工作室和新加坡的拉萨尔艺术学院之间建立一个远程呈现实验室，将绿色屏幕技术和虚拟场景设计相结合，使远程表演者能够在共享的在线空间中进行全身互动。八个英国表演艺术团体将测试，探索和执行在线技术。这些团体包括青年剧院、舞蹈团、音乐剧和地区剧院，他们使用标准的计算机和视频资源在偏远地区工作。每个为期4个月的驻留将以现场直播的公共表演为高潮，展示独特的远程呈现解决方案，并通过多个易于使用的PDF帮助指南，分步视频教程和开源资源立即传播，旨在帮助英国表演艺术专业人士重返工作岗位，而不管封锁限制。

Performing arts professionals must collaborate to create, rehearse and perform. COVID-19 restrictions on shared spaces and physical contact now prevent them from working effectively. This project will reframe and customise conventional web-conferencing technologies to create innovative performance spaces, enabling collaboration in a shared online environment that we refer to as a telepresence stage. Real-time video images of remote performers are merged within virtual stage sets, so participants appear to co-exist in the same online space. This enables actors and dancers to simulate presence together from their homes, studios, theatres, or other remote locations to advance online creation, rehearsal and performance.The project team from media and performing arts backgrounds bring together their knowledge and experience of developing live networked performance research and practice for over 30 years. They will develop a Telepresence Laboratory between University of Brighton UK, Third Space Network Studios in Washington DC and LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore, combining green- screen technology and virtual set design to enable full-body interactions between remote performers in shared online spaces. Eight UK performing arts groups will test, explore, and perform online techniques. These groups include youth theatre, dance companies, musical theatre and regional theatres, working from remote locations using standard computing and video resources. Each 4-month residency will culminate in a live-streamed public performance demonstrating unique telepresence solutions to be immediately disseminated via multiple easy- to-use PDF help guides, step-by-step video tutorials and open-source resources designed to assist UK performing arts professionals in returning to work regardless of lockdown restrictions.