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Set in the middle of a New Mexican storm, participants are guided to rediscover their first ways of engaging with the world, symbolizing formative life events that culminate in a shared exploration of our embodied selves. These key moments\u2014beginning alone, discovering the unfamiliar, first encounters, and joyfully moving together\u2014represent how our personal and collective stories are written through movement. Designed for four participants or more, Collective Body <\/em>asks: how does a body hold histories over time and how are those histories felt and shared?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director’s Statement<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The experience uses virtual reality to open us to different sensations of our physical world while creating a new perception of ourselves as individuals within a collective. We are first guided to reappropriate movement and dancing in our own body, to rediscover our first ways of engaging with the world, before we meet the silent part ourselves that we express through movement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This otherwise ephemeral self is generated using an algorithmic system that analyses our movement throughout the first two scenes. This self takes the form of an avatar, assigned out of 16 possible avatars, and is represented as a natural element accompanied by a musical theme. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once we meet this version of ourselves, we are invited to meet another person, encountering them as their movement avatar while being encouraged to share our movement and music together. With our partner, we join the rest of the participants, encountering different ways that others exist through movement, mixing together to create a final moment of joyful, collective discovery in dance. The final moments together invite us to experiment with other embodied ways of being: we have the opportunity to try on different movement avatars, to feel another\u2019s movement identity.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Collective Body<\/em> asks what it means to experience ourselves in relation to others – without words and beneath the surface. How does a body hold histories over time? How do those histories get expressed and interpreted? How do many bodies create their own ecology?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Directors <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Sarah Silverblatt<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah Silverblatt-Buser (born in 1992, New Mexico, US) is a director, dancer, choreographer and educator. She moved to Paris in 2018 to perform with acclaimed cirque artist Yoann Bourgeois, and has since danced in various projects including at the Grammy Awards with Harry Styles. She has choreographed works ranging from Street Art<\/strong>, a performance relating neoclassical music with parkour<\/em>, to La Petite Danseuse <\/strong>in <\/strong>AR <\/strong>for the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay and Danse, Danse, Danse <\/strong>in VR for the Paris Museum of Modern Art, directed by Gordon. Alongside Gordon, she co-stage directed Rave-L Party<\/strong>, a chamber orchestra performance and rave party for the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre du Ch\u00e2telet, commissioned by l\u2019Ensemble les Apaches. Collective Body<\/em> is her first VR piece as a director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

General Information and Credits<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  • Creator \/ Director: Sarah Silverblatt-Buser<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Music Composer: Harvey Causon<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Producers: Oriane Hurard, Aur\u00e9lie Leduc, Arnaud Colinart<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Coproduced by: ATLAS V, Body of Ways, Onassis ONX<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Technical Director and Developer: Ferdinand Dervieux<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Lead Artist: Arthur Maugendre<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Sound Designer: C\u00f4me Jalibert<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Commissioned by: Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • With the support of Centre National du Cin\u00e9ma et de l’image anim\u00e9e, Ville de Paris, R\u00e9gion Provence-Alpes-C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur, Institut fran\u00e7ais, Centre des Arts d’Enghien-les-bains<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Made by: Albyon Studio<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Distributed by: Diversion<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Awards: Selected at NewImages Market 2024 and Venice Gap-Financing Market 2024<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Year of Creation: 2024<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Minimum Age: 13<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • English Dubbing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Technical Information<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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    • Format: collective, interactive experience in virtual reality<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Duration: 20 minutes + 10 -15 minutes onboarding\/offboarding<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Capacity: 4 users minimum, up to 12 (even number mandatory)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Material: Meta Quest 3 headsets + 1 PC server<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Diffusion: LBE \/ onsite only<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Space Needed: 7x7m minimum for 4 users<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      Contact<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

      Oriane Hurard (Producer) : oriane@atlasv.io<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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