Conference Performance at InShadow Festival

Ghostdance #1 Andamento

On the 2nd December 2023, we presented a demonstration at the Screen-dance InShadow festival, at Teatro do Bairro, in Lisbon. The presentation was followed by a discussion with the audience and the dancers, the choreographer, and the programmers involved in the event.

This presentation took the form of a conference-performance and includes choreographic relationships with both "flesh and blood" partners and virtual partners. The increasing mediation of digital technologies has been altering the way we relate to one another. Ghost Dance investigates the bodily perception of oneself and others in technological environments of Virtual Reality.

The Ghost Dance project investigates what happens to our perception of embodiment when we are immersed in a VR environment. How do the perceptions of weight, effort, time, and space change when a physical dancer interacts with a virtual body? How does a dancer, when immersed in a VR bodily relationship, perceive

• Choreographic Creation: Cecília de Lima
• Artistic Supervision: António Cabrita
• Interpretation and Co-choreographic Creation: Daniel Pirata, Ester Gonçalves, and Miguel Santos
• Virtual Reality Environment Programming: José Siopa
• Lighting: Pedro Moreira
• Production and Technical Coordination: Rui Filipe Antunes
• Academic Supervision: Ana Paula Cláudio and Beatriz Carmo
• Motion Capture: Bruno Pedro