Our Beginnings:
In February 2020, Innovations in Socially Distant Performance began as a research laboratory at Princeton University with the goal of inventing new methods for teaching live performance through virtual means. The teaching project grew into a study and documentation of the aesthetics, philosophies, tools, and artists who were transforming the fields of virtual live performance and socially distant productions. This now archived website was a place to create community, share information, inspire invention, and document the expanding art form, with an emphasis on sharing the tools and techniques of a reimagined trade. The website was updated through December 2020 and was archived by the Library of Congress. Since 2020, ISDP has devoted itself to developing new virtual productions.
We leave this archived website available to look back at a time when virtual live performance exploded because of the COVID pandemic, and how theatre, opera, dance, and all forms of live performance were forever changed and enhced.