Immersive theatre intensive
Immersive theatre intensive
CONCRETE is an annual summer intensive in the heart of New York City, presented in partnership with La MaMa Theatre — home of legendary experimental theatre-maker Ellen Stewart. The program explores the hyphenated genre of dance-physical theatre, examining how these techniques function with kinesthetic awareness in immersive settings. This proximity-based research interrogates the cultural bias embedded in nearness, and the shifting relationship between spectator and performer.
artist to artist
This modular intensive facilitates career development, connecting professional and pre-professional dance artists with current directors and makers across the US and international physical and immersive theatre scenes.
Transformative, rigorous, and challenging, CONCRETE is built for professionals and college students 18 and older. Each week culminates in a fully immersive productions maintaining a ten-to-twenty performer/spectator ratio.
Material and prop-based approaches
Performer perception in physical space
Cultural bias within proximity-based performance
Clowning
Partnering
Ensemble devising
Voice in movement
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Full-time tuition includes tickets to a NYC immersive performance.
Limited housing is available.
Morning classes are movement-based workshops taught by one of CONCRETE’s three directors, each day focusing on a unique element of immersive performance skills.
Drop in for a day, or bundle workshops and take class from any combination of our directors. Register for all four workshops for $60 in savings!
Every day, Thursday-Sunday
10:00AM - 12:30PM
EXPLORE
Join us in the evening for conference-style symposium events, co-presented by Immersive Experience Institute. Dive deep into conversation with professionals across the field about directing, producing, performing, and more.
Saturday’s CONCRETE Mixer event encourages creators to bring and share works-in-progress or project proposals for one-on-one feedback from our directors. Networking with breakouts, discussion, reflection, and refreshments. All ages 16+ welcome.
COLLABORATE
Join us for the entire symposium and immersive yourself in foundational training, educational opportunities, networking opportunities, and big conversations with industry leaders in immersive theatre making.
Full program participation gives you access to every workshop and evening symposium event offered, as well as the scene devising process. Afternoon devising will culminate to the ticketed Set In Stone performance on Sunday afternoon.
ENGAGE
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Get connected to CONCRETE as the work takes shape. Join our community of dance-physical theatre artists and be the first to hear about upcoming intensives and symposiums. Keep in step as we pour ourselves into the process.