La Comédie Virtuelle – Live Show (Real time multiuser performance in VR) (2020)

PRESENTATION

In the context of the Covid-19 health crisis, the 77th Venice International Film Festival took partially place in the presence of an audience, but the Venice VR section was 100% virtualFor the 77th Venice International Film Festival, Cie Gilles Jobin has presented a daily live show in real time, la Comédie Virtuelle – live show, selected in the official competition, in the Venice VR Expanded selection.

La Comédie Virtuelle – live show is a real-time dance piece. The five performers are geographically distant, physically separated by thousands of kilometers but gathered together in a virtual space with the audience, also remotely connected from where they are. The work plays on both presence and absence and the notion of reality, simultaneity and community. As a global digital village, virtual space reduces the distance between bodies to create a meaningful and dynamic common space.

La Comédie Virtuelle – live show is danced simultaneously by three dancers our studio in Geneva one dancer in Bangalore and one dancer in Melbourne and presented live to a live multiuser audience. Based on a robust technology developed in house, by our team, the piece is broadcast in real time and accessible worldwide. This piece is possibly the first dance piece to be broadcast worldwide from multiple locations and in real time.

Tour

2021
12-20
Jun
Espronceda Institute of arts and culture
Espronceda Institute of Arts and Culture (Barcelone)
Espronceda Institute of Art & Culture, Espagne
La Comédie Virtuelle – Live Show (Real time multiuser performance in VR)
12-20
Jun
Infos and booking La Comédie Virtuelle - Live show
La Comédie Digitale - first edition - Comédie de Genève
Comédie de Genève | théâtre, Suisse
La Comédie Virtuelle – Live Show (Real time multiuser performance in VR)
2020
28
Nov
Dance Trail - IDFA
International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam – IDFA, Amsterdam, Pays-Bas
Amsterdam, Pays-Bas
La Comédie Virtuelle – Live Show (Real time multiuser performance in VR)
17-18
Oct
Programme du VRE Fest
Virtual Reality Experience Fest
Institut suisse de Rome, Italie
La Comédie Virtuelle – Live Show (Real time multiuser performance in VR)
02-12
Sep
77th Venice International Film Festival – Venice VR Expanded
Venise, Italie
La Comédie Virtuelle – Live Show (Real time multiuser performance in VR)

Credits

Artistic Director Gilles Jobin
Lead Dance Artist Susana Panadés Diaz

Music Hahn Rowe
Dancers Geneva Susana Panadés Diaz, Rudi van der Merwe, József Trefeli
Dancer Melbourne Victoria Chiu
Dancer Bangalore Diya Naidu

Creative Director & Technologist Camilo de Martino
Lead 3D Artist Tristan Siodlak
VFX Artist Benjamin Froger
3D Artist Michael Krebs
Technical Artist & Network Developer Pierre-Igor Berthet
Real Time Motion Capture Hugo Cahn – Cie Gilles Jobin
Mocap Cameras Qualisys – Motion Capture systems
Boom Cloud Technology Camilo De Martino – Cie Gilles Jobin

Production Cie Gilles Jobin – Geneva, Switzerland

Co-production Comédie Genève – Genève, Suisse – SRG SSR – Suisse

With the support of Cinéforom and Loterie Romande – Ville de Genève – République et Canton de Genève

Supported by Carol Brown et VCA Dance at the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Fine Arts and Music et Viga Entertainment Technology, Coburn the Software Guy

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