Sheppard and Lawson soar in their wheelchairs against a bright green screen and floor, each holding on to a white barbed wire prop in the shape of a huge X. They are both upside down, faces tipped and arms curved toward the ceiling. Lauren Mendoza sits on the floor in the foreground, with a large camera propped up on a wooden box, filming the dancers from below. Alice is a multiracial Black woman with short bright orange curly hair and coffee-colored skin; Laurel is a white person with pale skin and cropped peacock blue hair. They wear copper bodysuits overlaid with black mesh.

The Intersections of Dance and Virtual Reality

Kinetic Light’s territory, which premiered this summer, uses technology to place each audience member right in the center of the action: The 11-minute piece is designed for and created in virtual reality. Its digital environment features an otherworldly mountain range, a swirling sky, and, at times, metal and barbed-wire structures, which form the set for […]

Check Out This Surreal 360° VR Experience from Martha Graham and Barneys

Department store Barneys New York has teamed up with Samsung and the Martha Graham Dance Company for what’s possibly the most intriguing dance-meets-fashion collaboration to date. Today through April 8, you can visit select Barneys stores or their website to experience Mantle, a surreal 11-minute virtual reality experience featuring current and former Graham company members […]

Is Virtual Reality Ballet the Next Big Thing in Audience Engagement?

Fog envelops you as swans and sylphs flash right past your shoulder. This is Peter Leung’s Night Fall, a new virtual reality 360 dance film featuring Dutch National Ballet. It puts you inside the “white acts” the film portrays as though you were a member of the corps. Over the past year, ballet companies and […]

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