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. Through headphones and in a cycle of hearing, seeing, movement, and positioning, visitors encounter each other – without knowing what drives the others.
THIS IS US. We dance together in a circle, excluding others. We seek contact, but our counterparts retreat. We observe from a distance and yet are visible to everyone.
US LOVES YOUR ENGAGEMENT. What does that mean—are we vulnerable, dominant, or secure and elevated? STAY WITH US.
Video projections, motion tracking, and live videography create a reactive environment that captures everyone’s movements in real time.
This generates new impulses that are fed back directly into the audio tracks via AI speech synthesis—a continuous process of input, movement, and reaction. YOU FEED US. A media-choreographed performance about the mechanisms of political and social polarization: a collective encounter amid different reality bubbles. THE FUTURE IS US.

 

A production by VR Dance Club, co-produced by the Cologne Game Lab (TH Köln), TanzFaktur Köln, and the Koproduktionslabor Dortmund. Funded by the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne, the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia, and the NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste. Supported by the Children’s and Youth Theater (KJT) at Theater Dortmund and the Academy for Theater and Digitality Dortmund.