UBIQUITY explores a new carnival of identities and bodies. Five dancers invite the audience to a collective, participatory ceremony, with virtual reality as the gateway, dance as the driving force and celebration as the destination.
In this radically hybrid experience, audience members are invited to put on virtual reality headsets and explore worlds in transformation.
Carried by the energy of live electronic music, bodies start to move and headsets become masks: dancers and spectators mingle, opening up a space of metamorphosis and carnivalesque trance.
Beneath this joyful, subversive form, where the real and the virtual overlap, UBIQUITY questions our digital habits: what if the technology that isolates us could be hijacked to become an instrument of connection and joy ?
Stage Creation
Concept, multimedia and choreography Emmanuelle Raynaut
Concept, direction and dramaturgy Isabelle Jonniaux
Choreographic perspective Mercedes Dassy
Musical creation & live DJ DJ Reine 99
Scenography Lionel Jadot Costume design Alexandra Sebbag Lighting design Guillaume Toussaint-Fromentin
Dancer-performers Constant Bitihuse, Hamza Damra, Jasmin Jadot, Lucas Resende, (fifth performer in progress)
Virtual Creation
Writing and direction Isabelle Jonniaux and Emmanuelle Raynaut
Art direction Hayoun Kwon / INNER SPACE (FR)
Development and programming Hervé Verloes / POOLPIO (BE)
Device design collaboration Maud Clavier (FR)
Photography Emmanuelle Raynaut & Pascal Renholt
Partners Le Centquatre-Paris (Fr), Château Éphémère - Fabrique sonore et numérique (Fr), Nemo - International Biennale of Digital Arts (Fr), Le Lieu Unique - National Stage of Nantes (Fr), CNC - Digital Creation, Île-de-France Region (Fr), Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles - Performing Arts (Be), Wallonie-Bruxelles International (Be), (in progress)
Production and distribution support Louison Chartrain (BE), Mathieu Roger / La Belle Orange for AREP (FR), Stéphanie Barboteau / BLOOM Project for IN VIVO 5.12 (BE)
UBIQUITY is the result of a collaboration between Isabelle Jonniaux | IN VIVO 5.12 (Be), Emmanuelle Raynaut | Arep. Compagnie (Fr), and Maud Clavier - VR Creator. These three project initiators met through the Chimères program. The project carries within it a hybridization induced by the intersection of their practices and cultural approaches.
Photo credits Lucie Weeger and Pascal Rehnolt - rehearsal photos