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VR_Ii s a 100% virtual dance piece in which five spectators are immersed together and in real time in a virtual space. Immersive and contemplative, the performance invites viewers, or rather their avatars to follow their own point of view. The viewers-turned-camera move around inside the installation as protagonists of their own experience.Thanks to motion capture technology, we are now capable of reproducing dance in all its fluidity. Although the set, the environment and the dancers’ envelope are virtual, movement itself is very real. Artanim’s technology is a giant step for viewer immersion by combining real and virtual environments. Thus, the boundaries between dancer and viewer are removed and both move on the same plane, at the same time and in the same space, at the crossroads of reality and ‘virtuality’.With this unique installation, the performance addresses our perception of reality and our ability to adapt instantly to possible worlds—worlds that we accept as long as they meet certain criteria of our reality. In VR_I, viewers and dancers are subject to the same physical laws, they share the horizontal axis. The actual presence of the viewers’ bodies inside a coherent physical space allows for surprising effects of scale. Thus, as they stumble into a full-scale desert, viewers-travellers can find themselves face to face with 30-metre high dancers or later, notice tiny dancers at their feet

http://www.vr-i.space/

Capture of the first Lecture of Collide@CERN Geneva for Dance and Performance: Gilles Jobin artist in residency and his inspiration partner Joao Pequenao.

Conversation wiith Joao Pequenao (physicist and multimedia expert) and about his experience as an inspirational partners of Gilles Jobin | collide@CERN.
http://arts.web.cern.ch/collide/dance-performance-residency
produced by marlon barrios solano as part of the
series artists@labs for dance-tech.tv
thanks to Joao Pequenao, Ariane Koek and Gilles Jobin

Conversation with Ariane Koek, creator and coordinator of Collide@CERN in occasion of the beginning the artistic residency of Gilles Jobin @ CERN, as the winner of the The Dance and Performance prize funded by the City and Canton of Geneva. She reflects on the potential of interdisciplinary inspiration for imagination and creativity. She also explains the details of her project and her role as facilitator of a space for imagination at the biggest science lab in the world.

Conversation with Gilles Jobin about his residency @ CERN, Geneva.
He tells us about this opportunity to find inspiration in the biggest scientific lab in the world and particular with particle physics, gravity and the origins of the universe.

Filmmaker Luc Peter accompanies acclaimed Swiss contemporary dancer and choreographer Gilles Jobin as he and his eclectic troupe of dancers work on ?The Moebius Strip 2001 in London and Paris. Classically trained Jobin’s singular approach tells stories in a very special and specific way, where time is treated as an elastic, infinite strip. Capturing the essence of contemporary dance – a rich art form that combines movement, rhythm and use of space – Peter’s documentary gives a fascinating insight into how an artist like Jobin works and lives. Absorbing and intriguing, the film works well as a companion piece to Peter’s film about performance artist ?La Ribot, who is Jobin’s partner and the mother of his son.

THE MOEBIUS STRIP: The Geometry of Exorcism by Sylviane Dupuis

A sensual, fluid, hypnotic exploration of a “human sculpture”: the bodies of five dancers pass, cross, follow, intertwine with each other. A video of dance, adaptation of choreographer Gilles Jobin’s “The Moebius Strip”.

The Moebius Strip, created at the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris during the spring of 2001 became one of his most emblematic pieces. “On the stage, viewed as a white painting, bodies are thrown like splashes of colors, mixed as tint areas and given rhythm by the shades of the clothes” (Rosita Boisseau). This creation evokes his father’s paintings, Arthur Jobin, which alternate between geometrical rigor and intensive vibration of juxtaposed colors.

Interview with Swiss Choreogrepjer Gilles Jobin. he talks about the revisiting of his piece A + B = X premiered 1997. The piece will be shown in Lille at the festival Latitudes Contemporaines 2011. Thanks to: Ariella Vidach AIEP http://www.aiep.org/ DanceDigital UK http://www.dance-tech.net/profile/DanceDigital Gilles Jobin Company (Switzerland) Hellerau, European Center for the Arts, Dresden, Germany […]