UpStage – the online venue for live performances

This open session in UpStage took place on Thursday 7 March, from 11am-12 noon in western Europe, 9-10pm NZ time; find your local time here.

The next open walk-through will take place on 7-8 April – 11pm on the 7th in Western Europe, 9am on the 8th in New Zealand. Note that this is the time of year when clocks are changing all over the place, so please double check […]

Digital Performance students at Wesleyan University (USA) presented six short virtual performances in UpStage. “We are testing the potential of the software for interactivity and live graphic storytelling. Students will be the ‘actors’ who will be moving the avatars, backgrounds, props, voice and sound that […]

If you’re thinking about putting in a proposal for a show for the 090909 UpStage Festival, come along to the matchmaking session at 8am 17 March NZ time (that will be Monday 16th for many of you – find your local time here). This is […]

The third UpStage festival of cyberformance (live online performance) will be held on 090909 (9 September 2009). The call is now open for performance proposals. The 090909 Upstage Festival aims to create a participatory space for collaboration, creation, and for the presentation of current cyberformance. […]

today it came to my attention that UpStage is back on Wikipedia. it first appeared there late last year, but was speedily deleted, then put back, then deleted again; i’m not sure when it went up again but it seems to have been there for […]

The next open session in UpStage will take place from 8-9pm NZ time on Wednesday 4 March; find your local time here. This session will be primarily to announce the call for performances for the 090909 UpStage Festival, taking place on 9 September this year. […]

UpStage cyberformer vicki smith will be running a walkthru session at the UnConference, part the Learning@School conference in Rotorua. L@S is the annual Information and Communication Technologies Professional Development event for educators, managers, providers and facilitators involved in the compulsory education sector in Aotearoa/NZ. Join […]

September may seem like a long way away, but it’s February already and the next 7 months are sure to fly by. We’re already starting to think about the 090909 UpStage Festival – so should you, if you want to present a performance. We haven’t […]

On 29 March, Helen Varley Jamieson and Paula Crutchlow used UpStage and Skype in their performative presentation “Are You There?” at the Performing Presence conference, University of Exeter. Paula was on-site at the conference and Helen appeared from New Zealand. “Are you there?” begins a […]