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“I Spy With My Little Eye” at Belvedere 21, Vienna, 20–22 November 2026

VR Dance Club presents “I Spy With My Little Eye” at Belvedere 21 in Vienna, as part of the 20th edition of the FROG Conference, themed “Playing Art”. Join us in Vienna from 20–22 November 2026…

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Save the date: 4 & 5 December 2026, PREMIERE of “I Am The (Authy) Way” at Theater im Depot, Dortmund

On December 4 and 5, the Cologne-based ensemble VR Dance Club (Anna-Carolin Weber & Tobias Kopka) will present the premiere of “I Am The (Authy) Way” at Theater im Depot…

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Save the date: 29 November 2026, “Stay With Us!” at Deutsches Museum Bonn

“Stay With Us!” is a museum-specific adaptation of the interactive audio-dance performance “The Future Is Us” by VR Dance Club, created for the Deutsches Museum Bonn…

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VR Dance Club joins the Mentoring Program 2026/27 with Katie Hawthorne

VR Dance Club is part of the Mentoring Program 2026/27 funded by Kunststiftung NRW and NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste. Mentored by Katie Hawthorne, we will be working on the project „Runaway Script“…

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Workshop @Theater an der Ruhr, Mülheim

“Facilitation As Media-Choreographic Practice”: A workshop for artists and researchers that focuses on the role of facilitation in interactive, participatory performances…

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“Hybrid Encounters” @ Deutsches Museum Bonn, June 2026

Anna-Carolin Weber & Tobias Kopka invite you to a unique virtual reality dance experience. Invisible movement sculptures from past dance encounters are made visible through new movements…

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“The Future Is Us” – Playtest at the Academy of Theatre and Digitality

In March we presented a 30-minute version of The Future Is Us with 60 concurrent participants as part of Enjoy Community, the professional exchange format of the Akademie für Theater und Digitalität Dortmund…

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Celebrating the premiere of “The Future Is Us”

Before disappearing into the year’s end festivities, VR Dance Club would like to thank all partners, participants, guests, and friends who helped make the premiere series of THE FUTURE IS US on December 19 & 20 2025 at TanzFaktur such a meaningful and intense experience…

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Save the date: 19th & 20th December 2025 – “The Future Is Us” at TanzFaktur Cologne

VR Dance Club celebrates its premiere with “The Future Is Us” – an interactive, participatory audio dance performance for 30 visitors at a time, which artistically explores political attitudes, artificial intelligence, and the construction of reality…

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Anna-Carolin Weber & Tobias Kopka at “Bühne Frei – Der Theater Dortmund Podcast”

Anna-Carolin Weber and Tobias Kopka were guests on the Dortmund Theater podcast. In episode 62, they talk to Linda Kamp about participation and co-creation in hybrid spaces…

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“The Future Is Us” – Playtest at Cologne Game Lab

On September 23-25, 2025 Cologne Game Lab is hosting the conference “Transformations – Dynamics of Change in Media Environments” and VR Dance Club is involved as a partner…

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Save the date: October 2025 – “Press X To Push Dancers Off Stage”

From October 9th to 11th 2025, “Press X To Push Dancers Off Stage” invites visitors to be part of several performative laboratories taking places at TanzFaktur Cologne / (Rh)einfach Fest…

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Anna-Carolin Weber & Tobias Kopka Receive Artistic Research Grant (Kunststiftung NRW)

Anna-Carolin Weber and Tobias Kopka have been awarded with a full-year grant for artistic research in the field of performing arts by Kunststiftung NRW. This will enable them to conduct sustainable research into the scenic potential of participation and co-creation in hybrid spaces…

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“Hybrid Encounters” at Academy of Theatre and Digitality

Invited by Academy of Theatre and Digitality Anna-Carolin Weber & Tobias Kopka present their latest work “Hybrid Encounters – A Virtual Reality Dance Experience” on June 5th, 2025, supported by Phillip Dittmann (Facilitation) and Max Kolb (Sound & DJing)…

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Performance & Artist Talk at KoLabDays, Dortmund

We were excited to share our work with an evening of performances of Hybrid Encounters at the recent KoLabDays with the vibrant community of the hybrid performance scene on 9th of May…

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Cologne Premiere for “Hybrid Encounters” at the Festival of Performing Arts

Invited by Freihandelszone Köln Anna-Carolin Weber & Tobias Kopka present their latest work “Hybrid Encounters – A Virtual Reality Dance Experience” at the Festival of Performing Arts in Cologne on October, 4th 2024…

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VR Dance Club @ Makerspace Bochum

“An open place for ideas – projects and prototypes are created here” We are super happy to announce that our latest artistic work is supported by RUB Makerspace…

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Anna-Carolin and Tobias @ VOICES OF DANCE

Anna-Carolin Weber and Tobias Kopka were guests of the “VOICES OF DANCE” podcast of Dachverband Tanz Deutschland during the A MAZE. Festival 2024 in Berlin. The current (fifth) season focuses on work at the interface of dance, technology and digital media…

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The Power Of Asymmetric Experience Design – Artist Talk at AMAZE. Digital Playground/gamescom

“The Power of Asymmetric Experience Design: How Mixed-Reality Dance Performances Lead to Love Letters“ Artist Talk at AMAZE. Digital Playground at gamescom on August, 24th 2024…

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“Dance, Games & Tech” Panel celebrates its premier at gamescom Cologne

Dance, Games and Technology – Interaction Mindsets and Gaming Tech in Dance & Choreography 📅 22 August 2024 | ⏰ 5 pm | 📍gamescom congress, Cologne…

About VR Dance Club

VR Dance Club is a Cologne-based artist group creating immersive performances at the intersection of dance, movement, and digital technology.

Founded by choreographer Anna-Carolin Weber and experience designer Tobias Kopka, the group collaborates with artists, researchers, and technologists to explore how bodies and algorithms, perception and code, can move together.

Their performances and installations merge virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and choreography into shared experiences that invite visitors to participate, reflect, and connect.

Across stages, labs, and festivals, VR Dance Club experiments with new dramaturgies of presence – where motion data, light, and sound respond to human gestures in real time.

The artist group’s works – including Hybrid Encounters, I Spy With My Little Eye, Beautiful Connection, We Are In This Together, The Future Is Us, and the upcoming I Am The (Authy) Way – have been developed in close exchange with partners in artistic research and production across dance, theatre and games, including the Cologne Game Lab, TanzFaktur Köln, the Academy for Theatre and Digitality at Theater Dortmund, the Digital Co-Production Lab Dortmund, and the Deutsches Museum Bonn.

Their work has received funding from Kunststiftung NRW, the City of Cologne, Land NRW, the NRW Kultursekretariat, and federal programmes such as tanz:digital – among others.

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