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With the project ‘We Are In This Together – New Sensations for Remote Audiences in VR and Dance Performances,’ choreographer Anna-Carolin Weber and interaction designer Tobias Kopka, together with VR Dance Club, are exploring the (im)possibility of digitally integrating visitors into a hybrid and transmedial performance practice. They explore how gaming principles can mobilise the audience and successfully integrate them into the performance practice – interactive means are used to allow viewers to intervene in the course and movement dynamics and actively shape the performance. The aim is for collaborative participation to integrate the remote audience into the artistic performance on an equal footing.
The start of ‘We Are In This Together – New Sensations for Remote Audiences in VR and Dance Performances’ is the sub-project ‘Press X to Push Dancers Off Stage’ (funded by the NRW KULTURsekretariat), in which five actors test how spatially separated visitors can experience and help shape the stage action in a sensually intense way through the use of virtual technologies.
‘We Are In This Together – New Sensations for Remote Audiences in VR and Dance Performances’ is funded by the Kunststiftung NRW and cooperates with the Academy for Theatre and Digitality (Dortmund), the Cologne Game Lab of the Technical University of Cologne and the TanzFaktur Cologne performance and production venue. The artistic research was designed.
Photocredits: Alessandro De Matteis