Cosmogony – Live digital performance (2021)

Gilles Jobin

PRESENTATION

Cosmogony is a live performance featuring three dancers who are motion captured live at Gilles Jobin Company’s studio in Geneva and screened in real time.
The movements of the dancers are captured in Geneva, sliced up into digital ‘bits’ and sent instantaneously through cyberspace to appear as avatars, on screen and in real time for a live audience, thousands of miles away from the company’s studio. The dancers’ bodies and their avatars are entangled like particles in a quantum state, performing spooky actions at a distance, their movements instantaneously teleported across the world. The dancers act as the puppeteers of their own bodies, animating their avatars in real time and composing the cosmogony of a world in suspension. In a cosmic space or in the heart of a virtual city, the moving bodies of the dancers break free from the laws of physics to the droning analog sounds of Swiss doom rock band Tar Pond, offering the audience a mesmerizing journey beyond reality.

CREDITS

Director Gilles Jobin

Dancers Susana Panadés Diaz, Rudi van der Merwe, Jozsef Trefeli

Lead Dance Artist Susana Panadés Diaz
Lead 3D Artist Tristan Siodlak
Lead Technologist Camilo de Martino
Lead Technical Artist Pierre-Igor Berthet

Motion Capture Studios44/MocapLab
Mocap cameras Qualisys 

Music Tar Pond
Music Arrangement Marky Edelmann, Tommy Vetterli
Mastering Dan Suter / Echo Chamber

Administration Gonzague Bochud

Production Cie Gilles Jobin


With the support of the City and Canton of Geneva and the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia

PRESS

2022

> DesignAtLarge, 21/02/22, ” Cosmogony by Gilles Jobin at MEET in Milano: «dance enhances the body experience in the digital world»”Télécharger
> XRMust, 16/02/22, ““Working in real time means having a piece that is always evolving” – Gilles Jobin (COSMOGONY)”Télécharger
> Engadget, 04/02/22, ” The 2022 Sundance Film Festival projects we’re still thinking about”Télécharger

> Film.io – YouTube, 04/02/22, “Film.io at Sundance: Cosmogony” (26’54)

> Immerse, 03/02/22, “Field Notes: Sundance New Frontier 2022”Télécharger
> DanceMagazine, 02/02/22, “Dance Had Its Moment at Sundance Film Festival”Télécharger
TechVangart, 27/01/22, “Cosmogony. Explore New Territories”Télécharger
> LeMatin, 21/01/22, “Les avatars de Gilles Jobin en orbite pour le Festival de Sundance”Télécharger
> MovieMaker, 20/01/22, “Inside Sundance’s New Frontier Spaceship, an Interactive XR Experience”Télécharger
> XRMust, 18/01/22, “”To take the tools that exist today and combine them with the desire to tell stories” – Shari Frilot (Sundance New Frontier)”Télécharger
> IndieWire, 17/01/22, “How to Socialize at Sundance 2022 from Your Living Room”Télécharger

2021

Le Monde, 20/05/21, “Gilles Jobin transforms his dancers into avatars”Télécharger
> Tribune de Genève, 28/08/21, “Le nouveau théâtre au bout du lac La Comédie de Genève ouvre ses portes au public”Télécharger
> Le Petit Journal, 24/08/21, “Le Festival International du Film de Bucarest revient en septembre”Télécharger
> Radio Romania Cultural, 23/08/21, “Artă și noi tehnologii la Bucharest International Dance Film Festival 2021”Télécharger

> Léman Bleu, 20/05/21, “La vie d’artiste, Cosmogony de la Cie Gilles Jobin” (2’57)

> Italia Oggi, 03/06/21, “Ballerini trasformati in avatar in uno spettacolo diretto da remoto”Télécharger
> Tribune de Genève, 14/05/21, “Un Paquet de friandises”Télécharger
> Tribune de Genève, 14/05/21, “Danse Digitale”Télécharger
> The Business Times, 19/03/21 ” Travel the world through the arts “Télécharger

TOUR

2022
24-25-27 January : Sundance Film Festival, Park City, USA

2021
28-29 August : Comédie de Genève Theatre, Geneva, Switzerland

VIDEO MAPPING, MULTI SCREEN AND SITE SPECIFIC
14-15-16 May 2021 : Singapore International Festival of Arts – SIFA, Singapore
4 September 2021: Bucharest International Film Festival – BIDFF 7, Bucharest, Romania