Cosmogony / XR (2021)

PRESENTATION

Cosmogony is a live digital performance in real time featuring 3 dancers being motion captured LIVE at #Studios44MocapLab in Geneva and screened in real time remotely. The movements of the dancers are captured in Geneva, sliced up into digital ‘bits’ and sent instantaneously through the cyberspace to appear as avatars, on screen and in real time for a live audience, thousands of miles away from the company’s studio.

Cosmogony has been presented LIVE in more than 30 cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Singapore, Milano, Paris and has been selected at the SIFA festival in Singapore in 2021, the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, in 2022, the San Francisco Dance Film Festival in 2023 and in 2024 at the Digital Body Festival in London. Cosmogony won the Most Innovative Use of Technology award at  Filmgate Festival Miami 2022.

A low carbon footprint piece offering a sustainable alternative to traditional touring

Building upon the reflections initiated by WOMB (2016), La Comédie Virtuelle – live show (2020), and Dance Trail (2020), Cosmogony’s distribution challenges the traditional methods of disseminating choreographic works in light of climatic challenges and the carbon footprint of productions. Cosmogony staged 60 performances in over 30 cities, equating to 250,000 km that did not need to be flown (February 2026 numbers). For organisers, Cosmogony offers a unique decarbonised distribution model, providing a sustainable alternative to traditional tours.