The Future Is Us

VR Dance Club presents “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 and exclude 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 polarisation: a collective encounter amid different reality bubbles. THE FUTURE IS US.

Credits

 

Künstlerische Leitung, Choreografie & Interaction Design: Anna-Carolin Weber & Tobias Kopka

Dramaturgie: René*e Reith

Text Development: Tobias Kopka, Helena Miko, René*e Reith, Anna-Carolin Weber

Performance: Helena Miko, Phillip Dittmann, René*e Reith, Anna-Carolin Weber

Light Installation & Design: Marlon Brodda

Live-Videographie: Alessandro De Matteis

Stage & Tech Support: Phillip Dittmann, Max Kolb

Sound & DJing: Philip Kühn

Graphic Design: Ines Glowania

Press: Angela Vucko

Creative Coding, Sound, Videotracking in collaboration with Florencia Alonso, Fabian Bentrup, Laurin Bürmann, Lennart Melzer, Michael Nguyen (Koproduktionslabor Dortmund)

Förderung

 

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.