With a VR headset somewhere in a midwest state, joined by students from a film school in Norway, and many others from diverse parts of the globe, a teen joins the production inside the same world as the animated characters. All the viewers can walk right into the scene - choose where they look - who they look at. They are ghosts witnessing the scene from within.

On YouTube or Netflix - the 2D image of the play is being streamed live. The live event TV viewership is back. The view and camera position being directed from within the volume using virtual cameras.

Music and effects are cued by different triggers - either in the scene, or even cued by the tone and the performance of the actors….

We are now only three sessions away from our private show-and-tell. Much has been learned from the writing retreat weekend and the resulting decision on the first piece we shall work on.

I am not sure a what point an GAP Acting Atelier became an idea. Perhaps it was after reading Alison Hodge’s “Acting Technique” or perhaps it was watching students use the technique for fast work in a Mocap Vaults class in Montreal? I do know that it struck me enough, in the middle of the night, to force me to get up and write it down so I could free myself to sleep again.

…not only is acting of equal merit to any other artistic expression, it is the only fully corporeal artform that can affect personal, emotional and social growth in the real world. I argue that an actor can aspire to be “In the world but not of it” - at least to the degree that it allows them to bring both objective and subjective wisdom to any character they play. As such acting should rank as a craft and artform of primary importance both the social and personal realm.