Single Thread Theatre Co — Kingston Theatre Alliance

Performance and XR (PXR) is a virtual reality conference hosted by Kingston’s Single Thread Theatre Company and Vancouver’s Electric Company Theatre. Spanning provinces and platforms, the conference celebrates digital art making and innovation through XR (extended reality—virtual, augmented, and mixed reality). This week, I’m meeting with Amanda Lin—PXR producer and former editor of the KTA  blog—to learn more about the conference.  This interview has been edited for length and clarity.  […]

Like many, the idea of an online theatrical experience doesn’t excite me like it did pre-pandemic.  The anticipation of being involved with new technology has been dimmed by having to creatively engage with it out of necessity rather than curiosity for the last two years. This was the unfortunate attitude that I held when I went into the PXR (Performance and Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality) Conference. Immediately I felt […]

Project Description: SWIRLS: a series of workshops held around Kingston as a collaborative setting for meaningful engagement to improve artists’ digital literacy and enhance their capabilities in using AR/VR as an art form. In-person and virtual workshops will bring together a wide array of artists working within different artistic disciplines. The workshops will be experiments in providing learning opportunities while creating a context that makes for creative sparks to happen. […]

[TLDR is an abbreviation for ‘too long; didn’t read’, usually followed by a brief synopsis] If the pandemic has taught us anything in the last year and a half, it has been how to adapt. While an inability to gather has seen the closing of countless theatres, some companies have turned to the internet as a means of staying afloat. By broadcasting performances and moving programming online, digitizing became a […]

In a moment where Zoom meetings, doom-scrolling, and our digital worlds seem repetitive as ever, Single Thread Theatre Company’s production of Collider presents a profoundly innovative way to bring digital theatre to Canadian audiences.

On October 2nd, I had the privilege to enter the immersive world of Virtual Reality to attend the 2020 Performance & XR Conference, co-hosted by Electric Company Theatre and Single Thread Theatre Co. Performance & XR is a conference discussing the unique intersection of XR and Performance. With respect to the conference, XR is an umbrella term that can refer to Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality. While the […]

At the inaugural Performance and XR Virtual Reality Symposium, award-winning lighting, set, projection and mixed reality designer Beth Kates guides us through an experimentation of creating performance in XR.