MORELIA, Mich., June 10, 2021.- It should be recognized that the pandemic caught us all with technological illiteracy, said the actress Erandini Alvarado, who explained that there is little in local theater productions that goes through the virtual, although there have already been productions designed from the pandemic.
The actress said that virtual work has already been done; “I have seen productions and proposals designed in a pandemic for the virtual, with a very rich experience, in the sense of sharing, having the presence, communicating, and also using the technological apparatus,” he said.
There are groups and productions that put the batteries in that sense, he said, and indicated that there are few functions, locally they have not been seen, even they themselves as Coregía do not enter the subject in a frontal way because in this they have to also be taste conditions; “We love that the public is nearby, being able to share with them, see them, and then there are also decisions of a creative nature.”
It must be recognized, he said, that he grabbed everyone with an impressive technological illiteracy; “We have been learning a lot, and we have been developing skills in that sense, but one thing is to develop the necessary skills to open the Zoom, use a platform and give a conference, and another is to make the leap to use this in a creative way to communicate a scenic proposal ”.
In a very particular way, with respect to the Forum, an alternative cultural space, which she directs together with the actress Paulina Rosas, they have sought, apart from everything that can be seen with virtual content, to continue defending the meeting space, the space for conviviality and the theater in person.
He said that they have not even considered the hybrid so far; “Currently there are colleagues who are giving face-to-face functions with a very small capacity, and the function is transmitted by the Zoom platform, with the possibility that other people see it online, this is very complex,” he said, and it seems very difficult, both acting and technologically, “because the logistics of all this seems somewhat complex, but it is being done,” he said.
Rather, we bet on workshops, he said, and expressed that they have promoted online workshops and this has happened in a successful, very rich and well-accomplished way, “that is an opportunity, of course.” They have also given online functions, in a stand-up format, which is much friendlier, more direct. Now they are promoting the call for the Sabroso Theater Festival, which given the situation and the transition that is being experienced, they decided to make it completely virtual.
The actress said that the intermediate point, the hybrid, this double possibility, has cost them work, but on the other hand, all the proposals that had to do with multimedia, with projection, with linking content with platforms, had already been carried out; “Now a bit the issue is physical presence and person-to-person contact,” he said.
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