RESET! Beasts and Demons (2024)

RESET! Beasts and Demons is a hybrid choreographic creation, both scenic and digital. Using a motion capture device placed on stage, the movements of three dancers in action are digitalised, virtually augmented and projected in real time onto screens placed behind them, at the back of the stage.

The dancers interact live and in real time with their digital multiples: avatars, virtual allegories, and abstract forms. The combined movements of the camera and the music are immersing the audience between the real and the virtual. Viewers are invited to take part in the performers’ digital explorations on stage, accompanied by their living virtual doubles as they evolve within fantastical, digitally created landscapes projected onto the screen.

RESET! Beasts and Demons explores the connections between virtual and real bodies, as well as the interval and the void as a signifying space. Digital image processing offers the possibility of exploring multiple layers of reality, playing with real time, deconstruction, latency and deferral, and challenging our perception of reality.

The first performances of RESET! Beasts and Demons took place at the ADC Pavilion from 23 to 27 January 2024. Finalized and optimized for touring, the second version of the piece was presented at the ADC Pavilion in January 2025 and at Tanzhaus Basel, as part of Art Basel, in June 2025.