Playing with Virtual Realitites – a short Introduction

Playing with Virtual Realities is an interdisciplinary research project, which brings together dancers and scholars in computer science, linguistic, VR experience design, performance philosophy, and choreography, into staging together dancing in VR technology. The project‘s objective is to facilitate embodied understanding on how perception and practices are reshaped in the navigation between digital environments and analogue reality. ‘Playing’ became the main methodological approach for sharing our knowledge-systems, while bringing them into a mutual Practice-as-Research.

Project’s director and choreographer:Einav Katan-Schmid
Dancers-creators: Nitsan Margaliot, Lisanne Goodhue
Creative team: Sabiha Ghellal, Ramona Mosse, Christian Stein, Thomas Lilge Technical support and VR Operators: Meik Ramey, Norbert Schröck Child
Performer: Aurica Mosse Light
Design: Asier Solana, Einav Katan-Schmid
Videos: Alexander Katan-Schmid, Claudia Lamas Cornejo, Harumi Terayama, Jubal Battisti, Thomas Kowalski 
Editing: Harumi Terayama 
Music: Madrugada Step Into This Room and Dance for Me Nine Inch Nails 06 Ghosts I 14 Ghosts II James Marvel Way of the Warrior (feat. MC Mota) Kraftwerk Morgenspaziergang Berliner Philharmoniker & Karl Böhm, Richard Strauss; Also sprach Zarathustra, Op.30: Prelude (Sonnenaufgang) Nitsan Margaliot When I was a Virgin
VR technology and applications used: HTC VIVE, HTC Corporation Lone Echo, Oculus Rift Masterpiece VR, Oculus Rift Space Pirate Trainer, I-Illusions TiltBrush, 

Google VR Playing with Virtual Realities has been realized by gamelab.berlin as part of Image Knowledge Gestaltung, Cluster of Excellence of Humboldt-University of Berlin, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The project has been realized in collaboration with Institute for Games, Hochschule der Medien (HdM) Stuttgart, and with the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, Free University of Berlin. The premiere and the symposium of Playing with Virtual Realities took place at DOCK 11 Berlin, between 25-28.1.18. In association with The International Network of Performance Philosophy 

Thanks: Claudia Lamas Cornejo, Amaya Steinhilber, Matthäus Oelschläger, Harumi Terayama, Jubal Battisti, Alexander Katan-Schmid, Aurica Mosse, Melissa Blanco Borelli, Friedrich Kirschner, Ruthie Abeliovich, Janice Ross, Wolfgang Schäffner, Scott DeLahunta, Thorsten S. Wiedemann, Sara Lisa Vogl, Alice Lagaay, Stephanie Amurao, Thomas Kowalski, J.Schulze & team CMS HU-Berlin. 

We are grateful for the help of Mo.Ré; a collective for movement research. CC (CC BY): This film is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original creators and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.