Boca Del Lupo launches LivePerformance360 series with Swimming Home

This Autoteatro show by Silvia Mercuriali is delivered directly into people's bathrooms through a phone app

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Swimming at Home. Photo by Susanne Dietz

Boca del Lupo has announced LivePerformance360, an innovative theatre series that’s releasing a new work each month until June 2022. Each offering explores the intersection of live performance and immersive technologies.

The program is curated by artistic director Sherry J Yoon and guest curator Jo Mangan, CEO of Ireland’s Performance Corporation. 

In addition to the online digital experience of LivePerformance360, Boca has set up the Fishbowl as an education and demonstration centre on Granville Island.

LivePerformance360 launches February 23 to 27 with Swimming Home, ​an immersive theatre experience for an audience of one. It takes place in your own bathroom. Developed through interviews with swimmers from all over the U.K., the Autoteatro show by Silvia Mercuriali is delivered directly into people's homes through a phone app—the new app ​Mercurious NET (National Ear Theatre)​, ​a sound-based interactive theatre App turning the everyday world into a stage.  Britain’s The Guardian recently rated the creation as “Best Online Theatre Experience”.

Here’s how it works: the audience member stands in their bathroom, wearing a swimsuit, goggles, and some headphones, and is then led through a journey of rediscovery of their relationship with water as they prepare to enter their bath (or shower). A sonic reality matches the participants' actions as they are instructed to move around their bathroom, inviting them to watch their surroundings through a new poetic lens, allowing the bathroom to take on new guises. Sometimes an antechamber of a municipal pool, other times an outdoor pool in the hills of Hollywood, the familiar shifts constantly through sound. Get a taste of the experience from the video below.

The show mixes together instructions, binaural and underwater recordings, film extracts and interviews with swimmers to ​transport the audience, in and out of the pool, superimposing imagined realities onto​ ​that which they watch. It’s available in English, French, and Italian.

Find more information on Swimming Home here, and on LivePerformance360 here.

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