Collective Body

Collective Body is an interactive, virtual reality experience that invites us to meet ourselves and each other through movement. Set in the middle of a New Mexican storm, participants are guided to rediscover their first ways of engaging with the world, symbolising formative life events that culminate in a shared exploration of our embodied selves. These key moments — beginning alone, discovering the unfamiliar, first encounters, and joyfully moving together — represent how our personal and collective stories are written through movement.

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 of ourselves that we express through movement. 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 sixteen possible avatars, and is represented as a natural element accompanied by a musical theme. Once we meet this version of ourselves, we are invited to meet another person, then 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. Collective Body 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?

PRODUCTION 1:
Atlas V - Oriane Hurard, Aurélie Leduc, Arnaud Colinart
13 Rue de Mont-Louis
75011 Paris, France
Tel: +33 01 47 00 03 01
E-mail: hello@atlasv.io
Web: https://atlasv.io
Social Media: atlasv - LinkedIn, atlasvcorp - Facebook, atlasv.io - Instagram

PRODUCTION 2:
Body of Ways - Sarah Silverblatt-Buser, Rebecca Smith
9 Cité Dupetit Thouars
75003 Paris, France
Tel: +33 07 55 89 72 27
E-mail: bodyofways@gmail.com

WORLD SALES:
DIVRSION Scop SAS - Paul Bouchard
1, Rue des Rigoles
75020 Paris, France
Tel: +33 (0)6 26 62 63 00
E-mail: hello@diversionxr.com
Web: https://diversionxr.com
Social Media: @diversion.xr - Instagram, @diversion - LinkedIn

PRESS OFFICE:
DIVRSION Scop SAS - Melissa Rizkallah
1, Rue des Rigoles
75020 Paris, France
Tel: +33 (0)6 26 62 63 00
E-mail: hello@diversionxr.com