A ground-breaking project, the first VR Experience in dance to be produced in Puerto Rico! Ana is the project leader for a collaboration between CoDa21, Puerto Rico's premier contemporary dance company and Vision.AI.R-e. The project will be developed between 2024-2025 with a team of international artists from Puerto Rico, South Korea and Canada.
The title encapsulates the project, referring to the area in the brain that processes stimulus to make ‘sense’ of the external world. This serves as a metaphor to introduce local dancers and choreographers to the specific space and narrative structures of VR and its potential to expand choreographic creation: a way for dancers to experiment with transferring skills and to acquire new ones to ‘make sense’ of this new immersive world.
The project has been structured as a series of progressive stages of development so that there is opportunity to acquire skills and knowledge of VR production for dancers and choreographers (the specificity of VR 360 space, design and creation of 360 choreography in an immersive context, using haptics), and for the tech artists to familiarize themselves with specific poetic ways in which dance narrates its ‘story’ different to narrative VR.
The aim is to explore VR space as a choreographic space of encounter, a ‘round-dance’ in which all are participants bringing the spirit of the communal origins of dance to VR immersive technology/choreography.
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
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