The Bauhaus is 100 years old. At that time, it served as a laboratory of modernity and produced much innovation, experimentation and new forms in visual arts, architecture, design, theatre, dance or photography. The Interactive Media Foundation is developing some new formats to match.
This includes the virtual reality installation "Das Totale Tanz Theater". "Inspired by Oskar Schlemmer's stage experiments and Gropius' idea of the Total Dance Theatre, an interdisciplinary team led by the Interactive Media Foundation has created a virtual world that invites visitors into a dance experience with digital dancer beings," it says.
Equipped with VR glasses and a controller, visitors go through a journey on several levels of a virtual stage space. It is said: "The relationship between man and machine can be experienced in a completely new way in the joint dance in digital dimensions for the duration of ten minutes. Choreographer Richard Siegal has developed a choreography that has been digitised via body scanning and motion capture.
"The Total Dance Theatre" will take place in January 2019 at the Berlin Academy of the Arts for the first time. However, an international tour is also planned. Based on this, a six-minute 360-degree video will also be released, allowing viewers to immerse themselves in the virtual stage world. "The Total Dance Theatre 360" will be shown on the "Arte 360º" platform.
Source: Interactive Media Foundation
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