Denver Center for the Performing Arts is immersing itself in immersive arts.
was established a dozen years ago, that emphasis has been changing. And now with the promotion of Off-Center co-founder Charlie Miller to curator/executive director, as well as a member of the DCPA executive team, this city could put on a real show.
"Off-Center from the beginning has been a kind of project for the theatre company," he explains."It started off as this experiment, really on the fringe of the organization, with us wondering what we might do to engage adventurous audiences in different ways, how we might think more broadly about what theater could be, and create work that explores the boundaries of theater. Off-Center was born with that vision, with a recipe of five ingredients that would guide our programming.
But it took a while for higher-ups at the DCPA to realize just how popular immersive theater was becoming. "There are certainly people at the DCPA at all levels who love traditional theater and who don't fully get what Off-Center is or why it's important," Miller admits.
Putting more emphasis on Off-Center should pay off for the DCPA as a whole. "In terms of where that field of theater is going, Off-Center helps the DCPA be a real national leader," Miller notes,"because no other regional theater, maybe with one or two exceptions, is investing in immersive work the way we are, and we now have the expertise in what it takes to pull off these projects.
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