Chris Ziegler and Christine Bonansea: Yugen (2024)
Thursday, 28 November at 7:00 p.m.
performance
Kino Šiška, Katedrala
Duration: 37 min.
Yugen (Jap. »mystery and depth«) is a pas de deux between a dancer and a VR avatar. Her body transforms from human to abstract figurines to superhuman VR avatar. The avatar bounces back onto the dancer’s body, who wears a capture (MC) suit that also animates the avatar as it dances. This looping transfer process is interrupted and altered to find the original physical quality of an individual human character. »Yugen« develops a temporal space where the real and virtual space are not always coinciding but dependent on each other. The avatar and the dancer are both moving in a congruent frame, developing an investigative interest on each other’s worlds.
Direction: Christine Bonansea, Chris Ziegler
Choreography and dance: Christine Bonansea
Media and stage: Chris Ziegler
Music: Hugo Paquete
3D programming: Ben Fischer, Chris Ziegler
Co-production: Tanzhaus NRW and MIREVI XR Lab FH Düsseldorf with the support of the MODINA EU project
Partners: FH Düsseldorf, Tallinn University, Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava Dance Centre, Düsseldorf University College, ITI, IST-ID, University of Lisbon, Kino Šiška, Trafo, CNDB
Organised by: Kino Šiška and NDA Slovenia
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