Free UR Head

Free UR Head is an accessible dance experience that uses VR to create instant group choreographies through the participation of its audience.

Taiwanese theatre and film director Chou Tung-Yen earned his stripes for his cross-border approach, his inventive use of new media, and the unexpected angles he takes on his subjects. This time he wants to take a step back from what happens inside the VR goggle, and wonders about the real physical repercussions outside of it. The result is Free UR Head, a tool for instant VR-conducted group choreographies.

Virtual reality, dance, gaming. By mixing all of these genres, Chou engages in an experiment on the adaptability of traditional art forms to new technologies. A search for how these artistic expressions can reinforce each other’s connecting power.

But above all, the project is a product of his curiosity for human-technology interactions. How will teenagers and seniors react to the work differently? How to conduct the viewer’s movements only by using visual and auditory hints, in order for them to become performers? What are the possibilities? And what are the pitfalls?

Free UR Head is an invitation to get together and enjoy dance: in real public spaces and in a digital world, where we seem to be alone and isolated, but which is also able to connect and synchronize.