Fabien Prioville

VR Project [Rendez-vous]

Summer 2023

VR Project [Rendez-Vous] explores the challenges of recent virtual reality technology and related possibilities for contemporary dance. Immersed in virtual reality, a video dance installation unfolds, which is not only recorded, but also enjoyed by spectators in a public space. The same space is on the one hand a place of the stage, on the other hand a place where the performance is enjoyed. The choreography is recorded with a 360° video camera and the performance becomes visible to the spectator as virtual reality thanks to special glasses to be worn. The virtual reality installation plays with the audience's senses, as the location of the performance is the same as the physical location of the spectator, thus creating a new perception of space and dance.

A production by fabien prioville dance company | Coreography and concept: Fabien Prioville | Original material dancers: Alice Baroni, Veronica Corradini, Massimo Morosin, Ilaria Pradella | Assistance: Elisa Sbaragli | Management: Alexandra Schmidt | Videomaking: Stefano Sburlati
In collaboration with: CROSS Residence, Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo | Co-production: COORPI

Fabien Prioville graduated from the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine (CNDC) in Angers. He worked with Édouard Lock and his company ‘La La Human Steps’ in Canada before joining Philippe Blanchard in Stockholm. In 1999 he became a member of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, performing in repertories such as Cafe Müller. He also takes part in some films and has worked as a freelance dancer and choreographer since 2006. His varied commissioned works have taken him to New York’s Juilliard School but also to Japan ; in addition, he has been to Australia, Germany, Holland, India, Bolivia, Montreal Canada, Mali, Burkina Faso, Greece, and Singapore. In 2010 he founded his own dance company and became a member of the iDAS dance network. Since then he has created more than one production a year and has performed most of his works at tanzhaus nrw, Düsseldorf. The company’s works explore many mediums, ranging from virtual reality and modern technologies to the exploration of deep personal and emotional textures in each of us.

Ph. Paolo Sacchi