{"id":799,"date":"2018-03-08T20:06:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T20:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hexagram.uqam.ca\/immersed-in-the-theatre-environments-and-sites\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T15:48:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T20:48:00","slug":"immersed-in-the-theatre-environments-and-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hexagram.ca\/en\/immersed-in-the-theatre-environments-and-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Immersed in the Theatre: Environments and Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5> A talk by Arnold Aronson<br \/>\nColumbia University<\/h5>\n<p>Sponsored by CISCC (Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culturea) and the Concordia University Research Chair in New Media, Technology and the Senses<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, March 15, 5:00-6:00 PM<br \/>\nMilieux Institute EV 11.705<br \/>\n<!--more-->  EV Building, Resource Room 11.705<br \/>\nConcordia University SGW, 1515 Sainte-Catherine St. W.<br \/>\nMontreal, Canada<\/p>\n<p>Fifty years ago, Dionysus in 69, an adaptation of The Bacchae by Richard Schechner and The Performance Group, introduced the theatre world to something Schechner called \u201cenvironmental theatre.\u201d That term has been all but forgotten, replaced almost indiscriminately by \u201csite-specific\u201d and \u201cimmersive.\u201d But are these more recent descriptors accurate, and has anything new really emerged? This talk examines the use of performance space and the agency of the spectator within these spaces then and now, and suggests that immersive theatre may be an instance of \u201cold wine in new bottles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arnold Aronson is a professor of theatre at Columbia University in New York City. He writes on scenography and contemporary theatre. Books includeThe Routledge Companion to Scenography (editor); Ming Cho Lee: A Life in Design; Looking into the Abyss: Essays on Scenography; and American Avant-Garde Theatre: A History. He is a former editor of Theatre Design &amp; Technology, and currently co-editor of Theatre and Performance Design. 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