Friday, SEPT 3RD, 17:00 – 18:30
at MARe/MUSEUM OF RECENT ART, AUDITORIUM HALL

* Free participation based on prior registration through mail at contact@bidff.ro, mentioning your full name, a phone number and the event for which the registration is made.

ABOUT THE LECTURE

Contemporary dance, because of its non-narrative form, offers an ideal field for the artistic exploration of new imaging technologies that open up innovative explorations for the arts. In his lecture, Gilles Jobin will talk about how new technologies are the new territories for dance and how the dance language is enhanced by them. Presenting the creative process of his recent creation Jobin will talk about how these new technologies create an augmented meaning for contemporary dance.

In his 50 minutes lecture, followed by a Q&A session with the audience, Jobin will present the different digital dance projects he has created in the last few years and how collaborative projects such as Virtual Crossings can offer new possibilities for the performing arts. If motion capture can be a tool for creation it can also be used for the archival and study of dances and movements. Digitalization is not shared evenly in our modern society. By sharing hardware resources and knowledge, through networked technology, open source software and low fi and recycled solutions we can challenge the problem of the digital divide.

Gilles Jobin will discuss how motion capture technology can improve the inclusivity of different origins dance creations and develop new international networks of movement-based collaborations. In a world of sanitary uncertainty and traveling difficulties, real time collaborations at a distance and in movement, offer new possibilities to the new problems of the performing arts.

Gilles Jobin is an artist in focus with Bucharest International Dance Film Festival. His company’s digital dance performance app Dance Trail is available for free for the general audience to create and share AR choreographies in outdoor and indoor places in Bucharest. His most recent work, Cosmogony, a real time motion caption and video mapping performance, will be presented on the facade of the Odeon Theatre on the 4th of September, from 9PM.

About CIE GILLES JOBIN (CH)

In 2016, after more than 20 years of contemporary dance creation, Cie Gilles Jobin started to explore the new digital spaces for contemporary dance with the 3D movie WOMB. Impressed by the recent progress in motion capture technology, the company embarked in the creation of digital projects in virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (XR). Their first digital piece VR_I (2017), an award-winning dance piece in immersive Virtual Reality for 5 spectators, toured extensively around the world establishing a model for the diffusion of location-based dance pieces in VR.  

With Magic Windows (2019) and Dance Trail (2020) Cie Gilles Jobin explored the possibilities of augmented reality and the diffusion of digital dances into the real world through an app for smartphones. With La Comédie Virtuelle, the virtual model of a real theater in Geneva (2019) the company and its collaborators envisioned a functional virtual theater for the XXI century. Real Time (2020), a stage duo with live motion capture was a project embedding digital worlds into a stage performance. 

In March 2020, when the first lockdown kicked in, Cie Gilles Jobin decided to cancel their stage projects and go full digital, focusing on real time technology for remote collaboration and performance. They developed their own digital platform to create independent collaborations and performances, in real time, without the limits of geographical and political borders. Their technology invites any dancer under any motion capture equipment from anywhere in the world to dance together in the same 3D space accessible for a multi-user audience.

For more information about their work, please visit their website.