Yugen is a pas de deux between a human dancer and a VR avatar in a feedback loop.

The dancer's avatar is projected back onto the dancer's body via a motion capture suit that animates the avatar. This looping transfer process is interrupted and altered to find the original physical quality of an individual human character. Yugen is the antithesis of a duplicated, standardized avatar in VR. 

Experimenting with motion capture technology, choreographer Christine Bonansea discovered an essential reading of herself, a unique way of standing, moving, and being in space. Digital artist Chris Ziegler joined the research to write movement in its "virtual" quality back onto the analog body of the stage.

Chris Ziegler has worked on immersive stage technologies with robotics, VR and AR. He is interested in bringing digital technologies back to the physicality of theater on stage.


Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in the program NEUSTART KULTUR, aid program DIS-TANZEN of the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland and research funding.

 

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