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Presentation

Sunset Motel is a collaboration between choreographer Gilles Jobin and scratchboard master Thomas Ott. In Sunset Motel, Thomas Ott’s elaborate characters are brought to life when set in movement through motion capture by Gilles Jobin.

From the bus stop, where the participant lands in VR, they see the Sunset Motel on the other side of the road. They can roam freely through the lobby, around the pool and into the rooms. They follow the nine characters and witness their stories unfolding through movement and without dialogue. The participant is literally immersed in a black-and-white cosmogony created by Thomas Ott, populated by misfits and loners, “waiting for something”. When a dramatic event unfolds, the participant in VR realizes that they might themselves be the next chapter of that story…

Thomas Ott & Gilles Jobin

Thomas Ott is a Swiss comic artist whose haunting work is immediately recognizable. With his spectacular scratching technique, he creates wordless, dreamlike narratives and his cinematic framing serves as gorgeous backdrops for intense characters who are anguished victims of the greed and absurdity of the human condition. (Instragram)

Gilles Jobin is a Swiss contemporary dance choreographer and an XR director based in Geneva who, since the mid-Nineties, has created dance pieces which have become references on the world stage. Since 2016, he embarked on the exploration of the “new digital territories for dance”, creating hypnotic virtual choreographies. (More information)

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An American actress, dancer, choreographer and painter, she settled at Death Valley Junction, in the Mojave desert, California, in 1968. There, she transformed the Amargosa Opera House into a gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art), with its interior completely hand-painted by the artist herself. She performed her own original dances on that stage for more than four decades.

While the interior walls and the paintings are exceptionally well-preserved, the building’s exterior walls deteriorate further every year: flash floods and the extreme desert climate threaten the very existence of the theater.

In 2025, we 3D-scanned the theatre and integrated video images of Marta Becket. Thanks to 3D scanning technologies and virtual reality, we have been able to digitally preserve this unique site while giving a new life to Marta Becket’s artistic vision through her dances, her voice, video archives, and immersive 3D reconstructions.

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◆ Making of : Marta Becket’s Death Valley

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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.

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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.

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The Shanghai Loop is a piece that was featured in the exhibition Either/Or: Those remote days at the Suning Art Museum in Shanghai from December 8, 2021 to February 28, 2022, curated by Evelyn Wang. Originally scheduled for October 2021, the date as well as the duration of the exhibition was impacted by Covid-19 and had to be pushed back to December 2021.

The piece is a reflection on loneliness and isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic. It consists of the projection of different repeated loops, performed by Susana Panadés Diaz, József Trefeli and Rudi Van der Merwe. The main 3D artist is Tristan Siodlak and the music was composed by the Zurich band Tar Pond.

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PRESENTATION

Dance Trail is an augmented reality dance piece in the form of an iOS app that enables users to bring virtual dancers into the real world through their smartphone or tablet.

The app enables users to trigger unreal dance sequences in the environment they are in (indoor or outdoor). Users can also place dances anywhere in the world and share screenshots and videos via social networks. Available for free download on the App Store, at festivals and cultural events, various dances can thus appear in specific places (location-based) in relation to their environment. Created for the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, the Dance Trail app invited people from all over the world (Park City, Brussels, Hong Kong, Japan, Dublin, Korea) to take a journey in augmented dance, in the streets, in the fields or in the palm of their hand. Dance Trail is an augmented reality app for smartphones and tablets that enables viewers to trigger unreal dance sequences on multiple sites.

Dance Trail is available for free on the app store (IOS) 
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PRESENTATION

La Comédie Virtuelle is compatible with Oculus Rift, S and Oculus Quest with link cable and HTC Vive.

La Comédie Virtuelle  is a multi-user VR experience that enables the public to visit the Comédie de Genève, the new building of the oldest theatre in Geneva that inaugurated its new premises in August 2021.

The public will be able to move through the building’s various areas interacting with the space as well as with other “visitors”. As for Cie Gilles Jobin’s  first immersive virtual reality creation VR_I, there is no technology for technology’s sake, but a real non-linear narrative, actual aesthetic issues, and genuine artistic creation, and above all, the construction of a new creative and hosting space for virtual projects.
La Comédie Virtuelle  is an innovative and social project, accessible both with a virtual reality device and remotely from a computer screen. Access to the experience is therefore completely universal.

Cie Gilles Jobin won the NUMIX 2021 Prize in the International – Interactive XR Experience category for his play la Comédie Virtuelle. This prize rewards the excellence of Quebec’s digital content and was opened internationally for the first time during the 2021 edition.

Each participant is assigned an avatar, which is able to move freely in the theatre’s various areas, see the other participants and converse with them. La Comédie Virtuelle, just like the “real” Comédie, is also a place for social gatherings. Thanks to the remote motion capture technology developed by Cie Gilles Jobin, events can be organised and virtual performances performed live; all this to a universal audience, located all over the world.

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PRESENTATION

In the context of the Covid-19 health crisis, the 77th Venice International Film Festival took partially place in the presence of an audience, but the Venice VR section was 100% virtual. For the 77th Venice International Film Festival, Cie Gilles Jobin has presented a daily live show in real time, la Comédie Virtuelle – live show, selected in the official competition, in the Venice VR Expanded selection.

La Comédie Virtuelle – live show is a real-time dance piece. The five performers are geographically distant, physically separated by thousands of kilometers but gathered together in a virtual space with the audience, also remotely connected from where they are. The work plays on both presence and absence and the notion of reality, simultaneity and community. As a global digital village, virtual space reduces the distance between bodies to create a meaningful and dynamic common space.

La Comédie Virtuelle – live show is danced simultaneously by three dancers our studio in Geneva one dancer in Bangalore and one dancer in Melbourne and presented live to a live multiuser audience. Based on a robust technology developed in house, by our team, the piece is broadcast in real time and accessible worldwide. This piece is possibly the first dance piece to be broadcast worldwide from multiple locations and in real time.

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International collaborative project

Virtual Crossings is an ongoing project aiming at connecting simultaneously clusters of artists to collaborate remotely, on digital and movement related art projects and research projects. Three editions took place so far,  Geneva-Buenos Aires (2020 and 2021);  Geneva-Melbourne-Auckland (2021) , Geneva at Le Plaza cinema (2022).

Virtual Crossings Geneva (2022)

Virtual Crossings Geneva was created specifically for the Plaza’s large space, before its transformation in the fall of 2022. A motion capture system was installed for an unprecedented immersive event using real-time motion capture and live projections on the giant screen and walls of the Plaza.

Cie Gilles Jobin brought together a cluster of digital and movement artists whose common goal is to participate in the creation of a local digital-creative ecosystem of international level to increase knowledge and develop digital experimentation and collaboration in distance and in real time for digital and hybrid projects from the point of view of live performance. At the Plaza, the choreographic artists were: Susana Panadés Diaz, Ivan Larson, Maëlle Deral, and Gilles Jobin, the digital artists: Laurent Novac, Camille de Dieu, Tristan Siodlak, Pedro Ribot and Camilo de Martino and for the music Simone Aubert and Pol.

Virtual Crossings Melbourne – Geneva – Auckland (2021)

How do we build choreographic systems for dancing with those we cannot touch?

During the COVID-19 pandemic, in a world in which the masks and the screens are omnipresent, touching at a distance becomes a choreographic issue. Developing tools to navigate a touchless habitat engages actions of crossing thresholds – between physical and virtual, distant and near – from the perspective of cellular bodies hardwired for touch.

Virtual Crossings Melbourne – Geneva – Auckland is a network of artists engaged in cultivating distant touch through remote collaboration. Initiated and operated by Cie Gille Jobin, this new inter-disciplinary network engages partners in Melbourne, Geneva and Auckland for simultaneous remote performance and research through a virtual architecture embodied through motion capture technology. Virtual Crossings Melbourne mobilises soma-technic states as new spaces for dance to travel safely and with minimal impact on the environment.

Virtual Crossings Buenos Aires – Geneva (2020, 2021)

Virtual Crossings Buenos Aires-Geneva gathered, in a virtual space, two dancers in Buenos Aires and a dancer in Geneva, in the studio of Cie Gilles Jobin.

Thanks to the animation of each performer’s avatars and real-time motion capture techniques, they connected and danced together, in the same virtual space, in real time, even if they were separated by thousands of kilometers. This first project made it possible to consolidate the link between the Argentinian “cluster” and the Swiss one.

This exploration between the different aspects of movement in virtual and real spaces resulted in a public show at the Cultural San Martin during the Noviembre Electronico 2020, as a video projection installation on two screens, set behind the Argentinian dancers, who danced in real time and connected to our dancer in our Geneva studios and a second public show in February 2021 during the Festival Internacional de los artes de Buenos Aires (FIBA).

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PRESENTATION

MAGIC WINDOW is an augmented reality dance piece designed and created for the Aula des Cèdres in Lausanne. 
The aim of this artistic intervention, which was the subject of a competition, was to offer a project that had no impact on the site, a work that would be temporary for the user but permanent for the site. Augmented reality, thanks to which virtual bodies can be integrated in real space, was right away seen as the medium of choice.
Gilles Jobin imagined abstract dances that would be in tune with the surrounding architecture, like a contemporary, visual supplement to the minimal constructivism of this 1960s architectural piece by Jean Tschumi (1904-1962).
By playing with perspectives and matters of scale, the choreographer sought to compare the size of bodies with that of the building.

INFO +

(all in French)
> Magic Window is the winner of the competition for artistic intervention linked to the renovation of the Aula des Cèdres of the state of Vaud

> Presentation of the renovation of the building

> Website of Haute Ecole pédagogique du canton de Vaud, 04/10/2019, « Ouvrez une « magic window » en un clic! »

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