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Colorado Creative Ryan Foo is back again for more fun and games, Denver style this time with a sword-sorcery-and-stout…or pale ale, or lager, or whatever whistle your beer-loving little gamer heart might wet. He’s teaming up with Denver’s Rainbow Militia, which brings its own sense of circus arts to the endeavor. The result:
“Summon 4-6 of your most capable friends to aid Drinkledore in a quest to save his beloved dragon,” invites the website. It goes on to specify that because of the beer, this is a 21+ event, and it’s an immersive experience that will run outside for three weekends, Thursday through Sunday. Tickets and more information can be found on the
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Salena Martinez, 24, and Luisa Storey, 22, play the bones of a creature at Meow Wolf’s House of Eternal Return like a marimba on Dec. 18, 2017 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The exhibit is an immersive hybrid between an art installation and a museum, and the company has another location on tape for Denver later this year. (Dylan Owens, Denver Post file)
The slow but inevitable tyranny of “immersive experiences” is back.
Yes, we’ve seen it coming. No, it’s not the end of the world. But it can be confusing. And insulting. And boring.
There’s a bandwagonesque quality to it (with apologies to Teenage Fanclub, which coined the term). Blindfolded dinners and secret bars full of wasted twentysomethings are easy to mock. But what of the half-dozen “immersive” Vincent van Gogh installations in the works nationally, including a dueling pair that announced Denver dates this spring?
In early January, Eric Jaenike and Jennifer Mosquera of immersive-arts duo Prismajic met over drinks with Amber Blais and Staza Stone of circus-arts troupe Rainbow Militia. Both groups had spent the past few years pushing the boundaries of immersive arts in Denver and were mutual admirers of each other s work. They started talking about how they might collaborate, and it didn t take long before they settled on an idea: a performance set in the clouds and rooted in Greek mythology.
During the meeting, Jaenike and Mosquera conjured up images of clouds, lighting, starlight and an idyllic cabin in the woods. “Amber and I left that meeting and came up with the entire plot and storyline, says Stone.
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