A dance show based on Embodied Virtual Reality experiences, in order to materialize the feeling of displacement. Eve makes possible the meeting between the virtual and the real: in this ritual, the audience “enter” the body of Eve and go through a story. Eve is like a Pachamama, the goddess venerated as the mother of the earth and time in Incan mythology, a creative self-sufficiency power maintaining life around the four cosmological principles of water, earth, sun and moon.

7, 8, 9 and 10 June 2019
for 2 participants
Duration: ca. 45 minutes
Language: German

A glance, a fleeting moment was all it took to decide the fate of two lovers, their families and an entire city – the meeting of Romeo and Juliet. In what is possibly the best-known love story of all times, two worlds collide when the children of rivalling families fall in love. Juliet and Romeo meet for the first time at a masquerade ball hosted by the Capulets – an intoxicating evening which evolves into a tragic battlefield of emotions. Does the love between Romeo and Juliet thrive on its impossibility? Does their unquenchable desire for freedom lead them astray? Must their pursuit of self-determination lead to violence?

The artists’ group CyberRäuber creates projects that combine theatre and virtual reality (VR). The new medium offers fascinating possibilities for encounter with the great theatre classics. Following their 2017 production «The Ghost-Seer», the Berlin-based group now invites audiences at the Kunstfest Weimar to explore Shakespeare’s tragic love story in all of its many facets and from different perspectives. Equipped with VR glasses, the viewers of «Meet Juliet, Meet Romeo» assume the role of guests at a masquerade ball. Before their eyes and by simply being there, they witness the romantic encounter and the start of an irreversible tragedy.

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Concept: Björn Lengers & Marcel Karnapke (CyberRäuber)
Director: Branko Janack
Music: Max Nübling
Visual Consulting: Cleo Niemeyer
Production: CyberRäuber, Kunstfest Weimar
Cast: Bastian Heidenreich, Julius Kuhn, Lutz Salzmann, Isabel Tetzner, Dascha Trautwein

Kindly supported by NATIONALE PERFORMANCE NETZ Gastspielförderung Theater, supported by the Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, and the  Kultur- und Kunstministerien der Länder.

7, 8, 9 and 10 June 2019
for 25 participants
Duration: ca. 30 minutes

Miro Shot is touring a live immersive VR concert that allows their audience to experience the ‘world’ of the music itself. In these shows, the audience enters a room filled with projection mapping, digital art, VR headsets, and a stage. The audience is immersed in an audiovisual journey with haptics, custom scents, and dreamscape visuals. CONTENT looks at how our notion of reality has changed and fractured as technology becomes more and more prevalent. The signs are clear that music should no longer be presented in just one medium, one sense, and in one place.

The show’s visuals are designed in part by the Miro Shot Collective, the open source part of the band that features the work of multidisciplinary creatives. Anyone can join. Miro Shot is paving the way for accessibility and innovation in live performance with immersive technology. As writer William Gibson says, “The future is already here- it’s just not very evenly distributed,” but this is all about to change.