Hybrid Encounters – Virtual Reality Dance Experience

In the organizer's words:

With their new work HYBRID ENCOUNTERS, the Cologne-based media choreographer duo Anna-Carolin Weber & Tobias Kopka invite the festival audience to play with an archive of over 235 virtual artifacts and experience extraordinary dance experiences. Invisible movement sculptures from past dance encounters are made visible through new movements. By putting on VR glasses and headphones, visitors are immersed in a previously invisible, dark space. There they encounter a track of movement that fills the space weightlessly as a 3D sculpture - and invites the visitors to move. They take turns dancing, drawing and observing in pairs. Accompanied by the feeling of immediacy, the players immerse themselves, discover how others have moved, 'swim' with 3D sculptures, and are with themselves and yet not alone. Non-verbal encounters take place with dances long past and game acquaintances just made. HYBRID ENCOUNTERS runs in a loop and invites visitors aged 12 and over to become players in the virtual reality dance experience for 12-15 minutes in pairs. No dance or technical experience is necessary to participate in HYBRID ENCOUNTERS. This content has been machine translated.