When dance meets digital: new writings on movement

by Institut français - 11/2023
IFdigital
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For several years now, digital artists, choreographers and dancers have been using new technologies to push back the boundaries of movement. A new language has entered choreographic spaces to form a new relationship with audiences.

Digital technology

On stage

Virtual reality, mapping, robotics, generative creation, digital scenography... new technologies take to the stage and interact with dancers and performers.

Virtual reality, mapping, robotics, generative creation, digital scenography... new technologies take to the stage and interact with dancers and performers.

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The public at work

New technologies are also often a way of involving the public. Solo or collective experiments, in real or virtual space, the audience sets itself in motion and becomes the protagonist of its own experience. 

New technologies are also often a way of involving the public. Solo or collective experiments, in real or virtual space, the audience sets itself in motion and becomes the protagonist of its own experience. 

Virtual dance

Dance sometimes takes to our screens. It inspires digital artists, who use the media at their disposal to represent movement in a new format.

Dance sometimes takes to our screens. It inspires digital artists, who use the media at their disposal to represent movement in a new format.

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Exhibition “Real body - Virtual body”

The physical exhibition "Corps réel - Corps virtuel" (Real body - Virtual body) at Recto VRso, a digital art festival that is part of the Laval Virtual exhibition dedicated to immersive technologies, has been transported into the virtual realm following the health crisis. It combines performances, experimentation, research and virtual reality on the themes of the body are mixed. It also includes dance experiences!