LivePerformance360 is Boca del Lupo’s presentation series curated by Sherry J Yoon, Artistic Director.

LP360 2023 opened with The Performance Corporation’s Emperor 101 in April. This ground-breaking production is at the cutting edge of an emerging crossover between theatre and Virtual Reality. In May, was this year’s VR Salon showcasing Goliath (by Barry G. Murphy & May Abdalla) and The Man Who Couldn’t Leave (by Singing Chen). In June, it premiered Reconciling by Yvette Nolan along side the return of last year’s hit, Pochsy at the Airport Hotel.

LP360 was launched in February 2022 with Swimming Home, an immersive auto-teatro piece by Silvia Mercuriali where audience participated from their own bathrooms, followed by a double bill of The Magic Hour 360 produced by Electric Company Theatre and The Only Animal and Pochsy at the Airport Hotel created by Karen Hines. The third iteration was VR Salon, two suites of works from creators from all over the globe curated to stimulate the audience’s imagination of what is possible in VR. The final presentation of the inaugural series was Underwater Archeologist, imagined and created by Sherry J Yoon and Jay Dodge, presented by Vancouver International Children’s Festival.

LivePerformance360 also has an industry facing initiative that includes archiving performance for touring companies, interested presenters and invested academics.

Finally, LivePerformance360 contemplates the use of immersive technology as a tool for accessibility aimed at audiences in isolated communities and individuals with mobility issues that prevent them from attending a performance in person.

In addition to the online digital experience of LivePerformance360, we’ve set up the Fishbowl as an education and demonstration centre on Granville Island.

Curator

Sherry J Yoon

As a theatre maker, director and currently co Artistic Director of Boca del Lupo in Vancouver BC I’ve been creating intimate immersive installations, made work inside theatres, and created large scale site activations for over 20 years.

My productions have toured across Canada, Latin America and Europe, with commissions and premiers at theatres and at festivals.

In addition to more traditional venues, my work has brought artists and audiences to old growth forests with performers rigged up 40 to 75 feet in the tree tops, to darken shipping containers experiencing the auditory journey of crossing the Pacific, under the ocean waters where we follow an archeologist 150 years into the future. I’ve worked on an interactive installation about climate change and our relationship to the guilt and isolation that people carry, involving the audience charging a battery on a stationary bicycle, a giant puppet piece that brings audiences into the imagined life of these creatures on land, ocean and sky.

As theatre maker my passion for creating new performance with Boca del Lupo and through collaborative pursuits has instigated international co productions with Mexico, Argentina, Ireland and South Korea.

As a director, workshop facilitator and teacher I’ve freelanced for companies and schools in Vancouver and across Canada. During my tenure Boca del Lupo has received numerous awards including the Alcan Performing Arts Award, Jessie Richardson awards, and the Critics Choice Award for Innovation and I have been nominated for the national Siminovitch Prize for directing.

Past committee work includes: the Studio 58 Arts Advisory, Canada Council’s REAC committee, the Arts Advisory for Theatre Section and the BC Arts Council Advisory. I’ve launched the 3.7% local and National Leadership Initiatives – and advocacy group to support emerging and established BIPOC women and non binary artists in leadership, and since the pandemic, Stop Asian Hate, an initiative that has galvanized Asian Canadian Leadership in the performing arts across Canada to help stop the spread of anti- Asian sentiments through connection and support within our communities.

Sherry J Yoon