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.

for 3 participants

Enter 0AR, a collection of short dance works in Augmented Reality (AR) for all ages. AΦE (choreographers Aoi Nakamura and Esteban Lecoq) sought to bring the live-ness and collective theatrical experience into the work, reimagining the application of this technology that can placed anywhere in 5m x 5m delimited public space. Experiencing 0AR communally via five connected devices, audiences are encouraged to explore, move around the space and interact where their actions have a unique influence within the performance.

0AR is based on seminal masterpiece zero degrees (2005), a collaboration between dancers/choreographers Akram Khan, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, sculptor Antony Gormley and composer Nitin Sawhney. Inspired by their own dual identities, Khan and Cherkaoui searched for the reference point, the source, the ‘0’ at life’s core, through polar opposites, life/death, light/dark, chaos/order.

0AR unfolds in 5 scenes exploring from original dramaturgy consist of: Introduction, Pray; Border, Frustration, Transportation; Journey, Solving puzzles; Confrontation of death; Discovery; with original contemporary dance choreography.

We explore to bring the audience into the heart of an artwork by extending the reality through technology to reflect our everyday life.

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Artistic Directors: Esteban Fourmi und Aoi Nakamura (AΦE)
Technical Partner: Mbryonic
Music: Nitin Sawnhey
Dancers: Jose Agudo, Elias Lazaridis
Character Artist: Duncan Walker, Arthur Tabb
Producer: JiaXuan Hon (Blackwinged Creatives)

Commissioned by Sadler’s Wells, London
Co-Produced by Biennale de la danse de Lyon 2018

A Sadler’s Wells 20th Anniversary Commission

Special thanks to ZERO DEGREES original creators Akram Khan, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Nitin Sawhney and Antony Gormley.

Supported by Arts Council England, Jasmin Vardimon Company, V&A, South East Dance, The Old Market Brighton, Akram Khan Company, Eastman and Ashford Borough Council.

UK, 2018

Welcome to Utopia!

In the performative VR installation |U|topian Space|S|, personal concepts of space and of borders are questioned. Spaces, as we know them, dissolve into one other and emerge anew in our heads. Where does real space end and virtual reality begin? In the age of digitalization, |U|topian Space|S| searches for the very personal, individual utopia of space; perhaps we must throw our existing notions of space overboard and take on a new perspective?

The interdisciplinary collective MOSAIK was founded by Vivienne Mayer and Ilja Mirsky. Their aim is to illustrate and re-think cognitive processes of spatial perception. By using simple motion capture technology, the VR installation is transformed into a stage on which two visitors interact at the border between virtual and real environments.

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Director and Producer: Ilja Mirsky
Team: Ilja Mirsky, Vivienne Mayer, Larissa Höfling
VR architecture: Vivienne Mayer
Text: Larissa Höfling
Produced by www.KollektivMosaik.com

Germany, 2019