A ground-breaking project: the first dance VR experience produced in Puerto Rico, a collaboration between CoDa21, Puerto Rico's premier contemporary dance company, and Vision.AI.R-E.
The title referred to the area of the brain that processes stimuli to make "sense" of the external world. It served as a metaphor for the project's purpose: to introduce local dancers and choreographers to the space and narrative structures of VR and its potential to expand choreographic creation. Dancers experimented with transferring the skills they had and acquired new ones, to "make sense" of this immersive world.
The project unfolded in progressive stages of development. Dancers and choreographers learned the practice of VR production: the specificity of 360 space, the design and creation of 360 choreography in an immersive context, and the use of haptics. Tech artists, in turn, became familiar with the poetic ways in which dance tells its "story", which differ from narrative VR.
The aim was to explore VR space as a choreographic space of encounter, a "round-dance" in which everyone was a participant, bringing the communal origins of dance to immersive technology.
With support from the National Endowment for the Arts/ Media Arts Projects. the artistic residencies 2024 at El Bastión Cultural Center in Old San Juan, and ACirc Association
