SONDERimmersive is
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EXPERIENTIAL
You do not sit in a theatre, but rather navigate a three-dimensional world, engaging up to all five senses, making individual choices. SITE-SPECIFIC
Each show tells stories specific to and fully occupying its unique location. Whether a nightclub, a chocolate shop, a parking garage, or a zoo, it's like being live inside of a film, where you are the camera, and you choose where to focus. PHYSICAL THEATRE
We immerse you within these worlds of unique stories through movement, text, original music, location, tangible objects, and spacial design. *All within safe practices during times of COVID
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HISTORY
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SONDERimmersive, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, was created in 2019 as the vehicle for choreographer Graham Brown and creative partners to create new works of immersive dance-theatre.
The company takes the name of Brown's first fully immersive project, Sonder, which was produced in 2017 by Sackerson and occupied the Eagles Hall building in SLC (now Cafe Molise) for a 6-week sold out run of shows. |
"Stunningly intricate... a true tour de force"
-DC Metro Theatre Arts "In my top 10. I'm telling you, it will be with you for years" -C. Jane Kendrick |
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SONDERimmersive’s first production as a company was Thank You Theobromine, which ran November-December 2019 at The Chocolate Conspiracy, a working chocolate shop downtown. It was rebranded as The Chocolatier and scheduled to open March 13, 2020, but has been delayed until March 12, 2021 because of COVID19.
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"Fascinating, enigmatic, captivating" -The Utah Review "Kept me in thought for days" -Utah Theatre Bloggers Association Excellence of Utah 2019 |
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For a company whose work is defined by intimate proximity and physical touch, COVID has changed everything. When the pandemic hit they went to work figuring out how to embrace safety measures as a creative parameter to continue producing live performance. Therein was born Through Yonder Window, a drive-in immersive retelling of Romeo & Juliet, that ran for three weeks in the parking structure at The Gateway, and is now available for booking in pop-up form.
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"Remarkably inventive"
-The Utah Review "A thrill that live theatre hasn't given me for a long time; maybe ever!" -In The Telling podcast |
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Their current COVID safe production, THE CAROUSEL, runs Monday's and Tuesday's through November 2020 at the Dreamscapes immersive art exhibit. In groups no larger than four at a time, audiences have a dream-like experience being guided through the exhibit, meeting characters along the way. Each is inspired by the room that they occupy.
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"Visually absorbing"
-loveDANCEmore "Liberates the restraints of imagination and explores a deeper reality!" -The Utah Review |
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Upcoming projects include an immersive theatre experience occupying the Hogle Zoo, and a large-scale immersive speakeasy titled The Lost Generation based on the lives and fictional stories of modernist era writers.
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SONDERimmersive is always looking for new partnerships with communities, businesses, locations, and students. Please contact Graham@SONDERimmersive.com to discuss how they can serve your community or organization.
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