Robert & Judi Newman Center for the Performing Arts

The Robert & Judi Newman Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Denver plans to present Kinetic Light?s territory, a ground-breaking multi-sensory virtual reality (VR) artistic experience. Featuring the artists of Kinetic Light, territory is a potent aerial and contemporary dance performance that tells a story of race, gender, and disability, and explores how the technology of barbed wire disconnects humans from the world around them and each other. Utopic and dystopic all at once, this immersive virtual reality experience envelops the audience member in a disability-centered, accessible universe. This new project is a reimagining of Kinetic Light?s stage production Wired, an aerial and contemporary dance experience. Kinetic Light partnered with award-winning XR company Double Eye Studios and producer/director Kiira Benzing to transform live disability arts performance into an accessible VR experience that surrounds the audience in movement, light, vibration, and sound.