Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality
und Mixed Reality

BARDO AR

Germany, 2023
Direction: Tobias Staab, Choreography: Gustavo Gomes.

Physical death is always linked to disappearance. The digital is set against the transience of the material. Online cemeteries as virtual places of devotion or digital avatars of the deceased – composed of photographs – are expressions of this supratemporality. Against the backdrop of such comparatively new phenomena, Tobias Staab and Gustavo Gomes have created a series of augmented reality sculptures that are in a state of perpetual dissolution and are constantly rematerializing. BARDO AR opens the view onto an immaterial and at the same time timeless in-between space, in which the dualism between life and death no longer seems to apply.
Supported by the NATIONALE PERFORMANCE NETZ – STEPPING OUT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR. Hilfsprogramm Tanz.

Instant

Chile, 2021, 21’5”
Direction and Choreography: Javier Ojeda Uribe.

Instant is a collective impulse, a necessary experiment, a contemporary dance piece that takes a natural situation to a virtual reality environment, to capture the exact and fleeting moment in which diverse humanities get excited. In the midst of a dizzying daily grind, the stress of debts and pending commitments, perhaps the global pandemic of covid came to save us from continuing on our way to our end. From the stillness of confinement, it seems that the crisis took us to another place, one far away, one that leaves many things behind. And yet, we always return to what we know, the routines, the schedules?

Flow

Colombia, 8’14”
Direction: Juan David Aranzazu, Diego Pérez, María Camila Muñoz, Ana Carolina Naranjo Rojo, Choreography: Cinthya Flórez.

Flow seduces us from the mist that covers the moors, takes us into the microscopic world to admire all the life that a single drop of water can have, and takes us through the torrential currents of rivers to the sublime oceans. This 360° video invites us to see our own reflection in the water as a dancing body that becomes a metaphor, disintegrates, evaporates, turns into particles, and moves with an insatiable flow, merges with the landscape, and becomes a body of water.

RCE360° – VR-Movie nach dem Roman von Sibylle Berg

With and by: Sibylle Berg, Sita Messer, Perra Inmunda, Meo Wulf, Faber, Katja Riemann, Olli Schulz, Cyber Räuber.
Music: Olan

The last two years have not brought us much good. Except: The realization that human contact is overestimated. People always want something different from you. They stand in your way – whether it’s world leadership or a concert or even readings.

Digital – on touching clouds

Germany, 2022, ∞
by Simon Speiser, Norbert Pape.

How many angels fit in a cloud? This outdated medieval scholastic problem reemerges today in the guise of clouds, bits and data. While much of our work consists of manipulating data, we seldom ask: how does it feel like to touch data? What do clouds feel like? Digitus (lat. “fingerbreadth“, „number“) stems from the Proto-Indo-European *deyǵ- (“to show, point out”). New technologies enable us to, quite literally, touch and handle digital objects. This folding back of touch onto abstraction provides a fertile setting to explore both their materiality and the way they, in turn, move us through space: a choreography.

Digital Motions

Germany, 2022, 20′
Choreography: Helge Letonja with Dancers from Of Curious Nature.

The company takes the audience into a fascinating world in which dance and technology become an exciting unity. Together with the CyberRäubern, experts in the synthesis of virtual reality and theatre, Helge Letonja, and the dancers of OCN lift movement into a technology-based parallel universe. Real performance becomes digital dance. Bodies of muscle and bone transform into avatars of bits and bytes that animate the virtual space in a variety of movements. The audience becomes part of the experience, can participate and become creative themselves: With the help of VR glasses, the audience enters a virtual dance space and meets the avatars of the Of Curious Nature dancers In the VR world. The three-dimensionality of the space and the body can be explored and creative elements can be designed using one’s own movement. Each visitor thus creates their own experience. The boundaries between viewer and dancing avatar are shifted with casual ease.

I Spy With My Little Eye

Germany, 2022, 20’
A mixed reality experience by Anna-Carolin Weber & Tobias Kopka.

Have you ever been dancing with someone immersed in Virtual Reality? Have you ever drawn a large-scale sculpture while moving on the dance floor? This Virtual Reality Dance Performance offers visitors an encounter with a dancer via the contact medium of Virtual Reality. A playful dialogue of space-consuming movement, drawings, and imagination unfolds, playing with the conventions of human encounters in everyday connections. The audience is always welcome to enter the performance. Individual time slots for the specific VR experience are available first-hand for guests per festival day.

Awsat

Germany, 2022, 5’6”
Direction and Choreography: Eliane Eid.

Awsat is a 360°-short dance film that takes the viewers into a world where woman and goddess were one. Located in the middle of the performance, the viewer is a representation of society that has been witnessing the story of middle eastern women and has a chance to turn the story around by following the movement and poetic experience that shapes the narrative.

SINTIPON – V TANTSE

Germany, 2022, 5′
Direction: Jérôme Lozano, Choreography: The dancers.

Dance offers a unique means by which we can explore ourselves and open up dialogue between individuals and communities. The song “V Tantse” (In Dance) by the indie duo Sintipon describes the process of familiarizing with the world through dance, supported by the constantly evolving music based around various subgenres of electronic pop. I worked on the movement of the body in a way that can ignite the feeling of living it with dancers. It is intrinsic to humans to produce solutions to problems and emanate positive vibes; through the dancers I proceed to explore the theme of peace and the theme of freeing oneself through dance.

Body Builder

Spain, 2023, 10′
Direction: Leticia Maria, Ewa Surowiec. Choreography: Stella Garcia, Leticia Maria, Ewa Surowiec. Music: Philip Varenz.

BODY BUILDER is a participatory video performance project that aims to investigate body language through the aesthetics of bodybuilding, the image of man, the stereotyped vision of the gym user, personal construction, sports activity and the cult of the body, generating a virtual reality piece choreographed in 360° in the different landscapes of Mallorca.

It will reflect on the sculptural potential of the body in the public space, the improvisation of the performers, and the subtlety of young dancers, combining actions of strength, passivity, imitation, role change with sublime and daily actions, the comfortable, the exaggerated, action and passivity and the unconventional use of daily objects.

Superproximity

Germany, 2022, 9′
by Alfredo Zinola, Hannah Stragholz, Simon Steinhorst,.

Superproximity is a virtual reality animation film that offers to immerse oneself in a hand-drawn choreographic work and experience physical proximity in a protected space. Immersion is literal: the virtual reality film is set in an underwater world where two human characters explore this new habitat through movement. The viewer, a small character in the middle of this environment, is invited to look around and discover the giant plunging hands, the distorted reflections on the surface and the sparkling bubbles.

Virtual Surreality

Germany, 2022, 3′ to 10′
Direction: bodytalk in cooperation with Phaidonas Gialis, Nieves de la Fuente Gutiérrez and others.

Virtual Reality expands the usual view of dance directed outwards – onto the stage – to include an inward perspective. With VR glasses, there is only this direction of looking into one’s own self, which thus conveys new experiences. We interpret VR-dance as “we are dance”: virtual surreality.

Virtual Surreality by Phaidonas Gialis and bodytalk with Pawel Malicki, Florencia Martina, Capucine Schattleitner, Jesco Mittendorf.

Ship of Theseus by Nieves de la Fuente Gutiérrezr, with Krzysztof Raczkowski and bodytalk.

Non-Human

Germany, 2022, 2′
Concept: Irina Shutova.

How far can your body movement go…if your limits have been erased? and if you do not have your own body anymore? The non-human project allows you to break out of the real and feel like a living abstraction, to forget yourself. Here it is: the new me. And I control it.
Or maybe it controls me…?
The movements of the standard human body are retranslated using motion-capture technology to a non-humanoid creature in virtual space, and you are invited to experience this process in Augmented Reality.

Copy-Catch-Match

Germany, 2022, 20′
Choreography: William Forsythe, Brit Rodemund, A Dance and Digital choreographic play by Brit Rodemund, Irina Shutova and Warja Rybakova – inspired by “Catalogue” by William Forsythe.

Inspired by the duet “Catalogue”, the first edition of which was created by choreographer William Forsythe in 2016 for Dance On Ensemble Berlin and here for the dancers Jil Johnson, Christopher Roman and Brit Rodemund, and the second edition of which he integrated 2018 into the evening “A Quiet Evening of Dance “, Brit Rodemund and the game- & system designers Irina Shutova and Warya Rybakova create a game on the basis of simple basic elements from the movement material that invites each to relate and to move. The focus is on the joy of playing and the freedom that can be discovered in supposedly restrictive systems and structures.

RING. Felix Ruckert. Digital

Germany, 2022, 12′
Choreography: Felix Ruckert, RING.

Felix Ruckert. digital is based on a performance piece called Ring (1999). In 2022, it was reborn as a digital experience, where anyone can use VR technology to become a viewer of a performance from 20 years ago.
RING by Felix Ruckert was recorded using motion capture suits. Creative Technologist Warya Rybakova and Technical Artist Irina Shutova present the results of digital Ring as a VR experience.
Non-human avatars, virtual space, motion capture choreography can be very unique experience for the visitors.