Slow Dance

Through the use of VR, media art, collaborative practices and various choreographic strategies, Slow Dance seeks to answer the following research questions: How can collaborative processes of developing choreography with the use of VR technologies look like? What affordance do VR technologies have for developing choreography for online performances, physical performances and hybrid performances?

Together with project partners in Sweden, UK and Rwanda we aim to create three types of performances through the means of virtual, as well as on site transdisciplinary choreographic collaborations. 

Our project endeavors to advance the understanding and utilization of virtual embodiment in collaborative creative processes, with the overarching goal of minimizing the necessity for travel within the creative industries while promoting global perspectives and fostering international collaborations to enrich the media art and performance scene. 

Core team: 

Marie Dahlén – Co-project leader, project management; technical and VR expertise Signe Alexandra Domogalla – Principal Investigator, project management; Choreography and dancer Emma Forsgren – Information Management  Sara Lisa Vogl – Technical Adviser VR technologies

 

We are in the process to apply for external funding to employ dancers in Leeds the UK and to invest in equipment for transnational virtual collaboration with the UK and existing performance project by collaborators in Gisenyi, Rwanda.