
Discover Interactive Performance
Interactive Performance is an emerging discipline that is used in many different types of entertainment, training, and simulation. In an interactive performance, the audience is actively involved in co-creating the experience with trained performers who facilitate the process.
Examples of Interactive Performance:
Interactive Theater
Interactive Theater involves an audience directly within a story. The performers are trained to support audience participation, so that the resulting narrative becomes collaborative. Some experiences may follow a dynamic script, while others may be wholly improvisational.

Patient Simulation
Patient simulation helps to teach soft skills surrounding medical care, which are difficult to learn from a text book or computer simulation. Actors portray patients and interact realistically with medical personnel in order to simulate a healthcare scenario. There may be an evaluation following the simulation to provide instructive feedback.

Education and Training
Interactive Performance has applications for both teachers and students. Teachers can practice new skills with actors, before stepping into a real classroom. Students can practice academic and life skills by interacting in live or simulated environments.

Social Good
This form of theater promotes social good by exploring social and political issues, allowing the audience to participate, and by raising awareness. It also fosters a sense of community, empathy, and understanding, giving voice to marginalized groups.

Living History
Interactive performance in living history experiences co-creates scenarios of the past with participants through live engagement. Audiences step back into a historical time period and explore events, traditions, and morals while engaging with historical figures. This fosters empathy and understanding for the past.

Live Action Role Play (LARP)
In LARP, players fully immerse themselves in fictional worlds and actively shape narratives through interactive storytelling, improvisation, and physical action. This immersive gaming or play experience allows players to explore themes, conflicts, and emotions in a deeply engaging way.

Walk-around Characters
Interactive performance plays a vital role in the creation of walk-around characters who engage with guests at theme parks, street festivals, sporting events, and immersive brand activation experiences. Skilled performers bring these characters to life through lively improvisation, interacting with guests in a playful manner, connecting with guests on a personal level, creating memorable moments of engagement.

Virtual Worlds
In virtual scenarios, interactive actors can play multiple characters at the same time. This provides a great degree of versatility that can be applied to education, healthcare, entertainment, and other areas of exploration. Interactive Performance can also be used to prototype virtual experiences, or to hold more impactful events in a virtual environment.