For the first time ever, a choreographer combines dance with immersive virtual reality in a work that provides viewers with a unique sensory experience. Blending art with technology, VR_I resulted from the encounter between Gilles Jobin and the founders of Artanim, Caecilia Charbonnier and Sylvain Chagué, motion capture technology experts and virtual reality pioneers in Switzerland and abroad. In association with them, Gilles Jobin developed VR_I, a work in which the creator questions our perception of reality and enters new unexplored and unchartered territories for contemporary dance. Thanks to the virtual reality technology developed by Artanim, VR_I viewers equipped with virtual reality headsets and backpack computers move freely in a total virtual space. Five viewers at a time may explore this world, moving in turn in an endless desert, an urban landscape or inside a loft at the top of a mountain. Participants each embody an avatar that faithfully replicates their movements, enhancing the feeling of immersion in the virtual world while also enabling them to see their peers. During the experience, participants can thus interact physically and even communicate with the others. Five virtual dancers then come to blur their perception, multiplying, growing to the point of becoming giants or becoming tiny. With these effects of scale, Gilles Jobin addresses the concept of spatiality in a truly original way.

• Wheelchair accessible
• Nonverbal, without spoken text

• The installation can be visited by five people every 20 minutes.

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VR_I by Cie Gilles Jobin & Artanim
Choreography Gilles Jobin
Dance Susana Panadés Díaz, Victoria Chiu, Diya Naidu, Gilles Jobin, Tidiani N’Diaye
VR Platform & Immersive Technology Artanim
Costumes & Virtual Set Jean-Paul Lespagnard
Sound Environment Carla Scaletti/Symbolic Sound
Production Director Camilo De Martino
3D Scans & Motion Capture Artanim
3D Artist Tristan Siodlak
3D Editor Camilo De Martino
Technical Artist Rémy Maetz
Choreographer Assistant Susana Panadés Díaz
Technical Director Hugo Cahn
Technicians on tour Hugo Cahn, Camilo de Martino, Susana Panadés Diaz
Administration & Accounting Gonzague Bochud
Production Cie Gilles Jobin Genève – Suisse
Coproduction Arsenic, Lausanne
Support City of Geneva, Canton of Geneva, Pro Helvetia, Loterie Romande, Fondation Meyrinoise du Casino, Fonds mécénat SIG

Gilles Jobin is the recipient of the 2015 Swiss Grand Award for Dance, awarded by the Office fédéral de la culture for his contribution to the development of contemporary dance.

This guest performance is supported by Pro Helvetia Schweizer Kulturstiftung and Oertli-Stiftung.