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The piece "Brainwaves" connected in the Small Theatre Lucerne Stage art with the reality of virtual bodies. The audience was equipped with virtual reality headsets.

Nine chairs, nine virtual reality headsets - for the nine spectators - and in the background a kind of doll made of light connections, and in it Ivy. Ivy, who suffers from locked-in syndrome, has spent most of her life communicating only with the help of her eyelids and eyes. This Ivy grew up in a body that did not allow her to communicate in any other way. Thanks to Motum, a neural interface that gives Ivy access to a virtual body in a computer programme, she now experiences a whole new way of being beyond her physical limitations. And the audience experiences it impressively.

An exceptional and dreamlike experience

In a production combining several levels of reality, Ivy's journey through her digitalised life could be followed at close quarters. The audience was invited to immerse themselves in a dreamlike experience with virtual reality headsets. Simply put, the play Brainwaves, conceived by RGB Project, written by Christophe Burgess, who also directs, and performed by Estelle Bridet and Michael Goodchild, combines stage art and virtual reality.

Here is an impression of it: