Dance

Requiem: A Celebration of Life and Achievement, was a devised immersive theatrical experience that was part memorial service and part graduation.

A contemporary dance performance radicalizing the human body in the virtual world. This international and interdisciplinary research project explores the dancing body through technologies including motion-capture technology, VR, and digital avatars to wield a narrative between man and machine. The work seeks to question the human body’s engagement, sensorial response, and viewership in the fields of virtual design and dance.

Virtual reality dance in the Gallery

How can dance interpret and respond to our paintings and architecture?

How can movement animate our space and art and help us see both in new ways?

How can we share the experience of watching a live dance performance in the Gallery with people who live far away?

Immerse yourself in a dark and shadowy world, and let your whole self be moved as you choose your own viewpoint and flow within the dance. Experiment with the dancers as they explore new pathways within Virtual Realities – fall, rise, turn, and fly with us into the stars. 

Watching dance is often a passive experience with one fixed point of view. We set about creating an immersive and visceral experience, allowing the audience to explore dance from all viewpoints, creating their own flow within the choreography.

“O, Rocks!”  In a meaty delicacy that ignites the senses, David Bolger’s evocative response to Ulysses Episode 4 probes dual realities to create a highly original dance performance installation of unsettling, voluptuous beauty.  Each audience member is taken on an intimate, deeply personal, multi-sensorial journey designed to linger long after they have left the landmark building of 42 Fairview Strand.

The story of the Greek hero, Odysseus, and his long journey home was passed down to us in a poem by Homer – The Odyssey. Today, the word odyssey evokes an arduous journey for any person. But where do you go back to when you have no home? MEXA is a collective founded in 2015 following outbreaks of violence in so-called homeless shelters in São Paulo. For several years, they have been working out of Casa do Povo (House of the People), a revolutionary Jewish cultural centre founded in São Paulo in 1946 to promote values of radical solidarity.

Marking acclaimed choreographer Jean Butler’s return to working with traditional Irish dancers, ‘What We Hold’ is a site-specific work which unfolds as a series of encounters performed by an intergenerational cast of contemporary and traditional dancers that range in age from mid teens to late 60’s.

GODS AND MORTALS RISE FOR A PARTY AT THE END OF THE WORLD

Between the neon-drenched backstreets of Downtown Troy and the menacing shadow of Greece, a sprawling labyrinth hides secrets not even prophecies could foretell. Choose your own fate in a colossal playground of 100+ rooms across two mythic cities. As night falls, Gods, mortals, dreamers and lovers come alive  – one last time.

Paar is a VR dance film split between a physical and virtual world. Filmed in the historic GDR-era Tieranatomisches Theater (TAT) at Berlin Charité hospital, Paar uses 360 video together with motion capture technology to follow a journey of discovery between linked bodies and theaters.

Alone we are born,
and alone we come into the world, When we die, alone we pass away.

For no one shares our fate, and none our suffering.

So what are they to me,
such ‘friends’ and all their hindrances?.”

ーThe Larger Sutra on Amitāyus

Artist Lu Yang reincarnated as “Doku” into a digital parallel universe. Without the constraints of time and space, being free from the shackles of physical needs and identity, Doku is born to explore the secret of human mind and the intention of the universe.