The Look Elsewhere
2017
VR performance
A vibrant and bold VR experience
at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris
The Look Elsewhere is a live performance in collaboration with fashion designer Samuel Fasse, choregrapher Morgan Belenguer, and music artist Jackson And His Computer Band.
Each dancer enters a unique visual universe where they lose their grip on reality; they find themselves in a new world that challenges the rules of logic. Then, they start dancing as they please alongside abstractions that have a life of their own; the dancers can choose to answer them, defy them, or harmonize with them.
The dancers in the virtual world no longer feel their bodies, nor are they aware of the audience in front of them: they are dancing alone, with only a mental representation of their movements. Each abstract shape that surrounds them and with which they can interact represents a musical note. As soon as a dancer and a shape collide, a sound is produced, and so the score of the experience is created by movement; the three dancers jointly compose the music by moving each inside their own area.
A musical narrative progressively falls into place thanks to the choreography, the motion of the virtual shapes, and the interaction between both: this intimate and scenographic relationship is revealed to everybody else by the ever-evolving music.
The experience has an infinity of outputs, as each dancer and each member of the audience has an unprecedented relationship with it. All the borders are questioned, the horizons and perceptions become plural. There is no main actor, the subjects are diverse and entangled, in an attempt to catch a glimpse of a world of multiplicity, a somewhere else.
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credits
Authors
Samuel Fasse & Morgan Belenguer
Producer
Antoine Cardon
Creative Director
Marie Jourdren
Director
Paulin Rogues
Art Direction
Unicorn Paris
Scenography
Guillaume Malichier, Julien Malichier
Generative Music Supervisor & Composer
Jackson And His Computer Band
Technical Director
Antoine Cardon
Real-time Sound Developer
Grégory Semah
Lead Developer
Thomas Azoug
Developer
Adrien Scholler
Production
DVGROUP