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Participants Our Interactive Residencies have included a range of people. We have facilitated exchanges that focused on children, teens, adults, and people with disabilities. These participants have come from the inner city, the suburbs, and rural areas. They have also ranged in their previous expereince with the performing arts from first timers, to pre-professional university students, to seasoned artists. All of this is to say that no matter the community you come from TPL's model of interactive exchanges for the performing arts is accessible to all ages, abilities, and cultures. In fact, our next big adventure the TPL World Bridge involves connecting participants across continents! If by chance you are a first time participant in an interactive event, know that the environement you are about to walk into is not a typical classroom situation. You will be connecting with other participants hundreds, possibly thousands, of miles away. It is our aim that the technology disappears so that you feel as through you are standing in one room with all of the participants. During an event it is important to speak up and make yourself known. If you cannot see what is happening at the far site or cannot hear the Coach, speak up and say so. ask for a differnt camera angle if you need to. It is better to speak up early in the exchange than to strain to hear the Coach for an hour! Asking questions and jumping into the center of the action is something we here at TPL greatly encourage from all of our participants.
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Dressing the Part -- ! Also one note on attire. We have found that when participants wear attire that is mostly white, black, or has lots of patterns it is difficult for the participants at the far site to see a clear image. So we engourage you to wear neutral or bright colors without patterns so the Coach at the far site can see you clearly when you are on camera. |
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