Architecture & Danse - Les "100 ans du Bauhaus", ou un Nouvel Espace Virtuel d'Expression Artistique
Bauhaus is 100 years old! As a laboratory of modernity, Bauhaus has developed innovations, experiments and new forms in the visual arts, architecture and design, theatre, dance, photography, performing arts and teaching. 100 years later we ask how artists today – as modern and radical as ever – can combine their visions of architecture, art and design and present them to the public.
For the occasion, the Interactive Media Foundation has developed four innovative formats, three of which will celebrate their premiere in January 2019 as part of the official opening festival. For example, the interactive virtual reality installation Das Totale Tanz Theater. It was 100 years ago that artistic research and experimentation on the topic of humans and machines was first undertaken in stage workshops at the historic Bauhaus. Inspired by Oskar Schlemmers stage experiments and Gropius ideas of a Total Theater, an interdisciplinary team under the leadership of the Interactive Media Foundation created a virtual world that invites visitors to interact with digital dancing figures. Fitted out with VR goggles and a controller, visitors embark on a thrilling journey through multiple levels of a vast, virtual stage space. For a duration of ten minutes, the relationship between humans and machines is experienced in a completely new way by means of joint dance in digital dimensions.
Das Totale Tanz Theater enables an integrated, immediate experience thanks to the interplay between the different arts and state of the art digital technology. Based on the Interactive Media Foundation’s idea and dramaturgy, the choreographer Richard Siegal has developed a piece of choreography that utilises body scanning and motion capture procedures to digitalise, being rearranged for the three-dimensional space. The experts at Artificial Rome took care of design of the scenography and costumes, along with the technical realisation. The dramaturgy is sustained by electronic music by the composer Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch.
The installation Das Totale Tanz Theater, a project of Interactive Media Foundation and Filmtank, co-created with Artificial Rome, can be experienced for the first time in January 2019 at the Academy of Arts, Berlin before it embarks on an international tour. A further stopping off point amongst others in Germany is the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation.