Expanded Fields VR (2019, VR recording)

2019 Moving image installation with live performance, sound and virtual reality.

‘the team have made something remarkable happen through the digital encounter proposed within Expanded Fields. It is an extreme act of generosity when an artist reimagines their live work several times to meet audiences in new virtual spaces, beyond the stage or gallery, but instead in a hybrid world. We encourage everyone to login and take some time to explore the space and propositions within.’

Lynnette Moran, Festival Director Live Collision Dublin Nov 2020

The installation invites audiences into proximity with a piece of choreography, to encounter the inner worlds, images, sounds and sensations that dancers experience in the performance of a moment of dance. The film, sound installation and virtual reality spaces alongside episodic live performance will illuminate the ‘expanded fields’ emanating from this dancing moment, inviting the viewer into an intimate perspective on the complexities of the dancers’ individual and shared experience as they move together. The audience can encounter the live performers in the gallery at specific times and can explore the film, sound and virtual reality traces the dancers leave behind.

Concept & design Gibson/Martelli/Roche

Collaboration between dance artist Jenny Roche, Gibson/Martelli and composer Mel Mercier.

Unreal & VR Developer: Bruno Martelli.

Dancers: Kévin Coquelard, Henry Montes and Ursula Robb.

This project is funded by the Arts Council and supported by the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Live Collision International Festival and Lightmoves Festival of Screendance.