CyberBallet

 

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’CyberBallet’ is a live performance in cyberspace: What does it mean to have a body, to move in space? Can the machine truly grasp the basics of the human experience if it lacks a body? Our dancers were recorded with video and digital motion capture analyzed to a machine learning algorithm. The project went through a drastic transformation: originally planned as a live VR installation, we shifted the venue according to the new normal of Covid-19. We transferred ‘CyberBallet’ into Cyberspace: a performance in front of a live audience, sharing the virtual space with their avatars and our performers on a social VR-platform.


Concept, Direction: CyberRäuber - Marcel Karnapke, Björn Lengers
Choreography, Dance, Concept: Ronni Maciel
Music: Micha Kaplan
Stage: Angelika Katzinger
Voice, Vocals: Jessica Gadani
Production: Eva-Karen Tittmann

Dancers: Badisches Staatsballett (Désirée Ballantyne, Anastasiya Didenko, Carolina Martins, Louiz Rodrigues, Emiel Vandenberghe)

Premiered on 09.09.2020 in ARS Electronia Festival, Linz

A collaboration with Badisches Staatstheater, Karlsruhe and Landestheater Linz
Funded by Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Fonds Doppelpass

Participated in:
Attakkali Biennial,  Bangalore 2022
CLB Contemporary Art Space, Berlin 2021
VRHAM! Virtual Reality & Arts Festival, Hamburg 2020