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. Explore the experiments and bold ideas behind the Academy's Fellowship programme, delve into the science behind the projects of our HIDA researchers, and explore the results of international collaborations.

is a platform for discovery and documentation. Each 

showcases a unique artistic-technological research project, with topics as diverse as the use of AI in theatrical design, choreography for and with robotics, and the possibilities for theatre in virtual spaces. Each 

 offers the chance to learn more about the members of our artistic research network. By pooling our knowledge in such a way, creative research into theatre, performance and digital technologies can become more accessible, sustainable, and artistically innovative.

Funded by the Federal Cultural Foundation, the Academy will award a total of 54 fellowships between 2019 and 2022, each lasting for five months. The 

 are designed for people interested in artistic-technical research which explores the possibilities for digital narratives in theatrical spaces, as well as their practical implementation. Fellows have researched a variety of digital methods (motion capture, coding, XR, VR, AR, sensor technologies, robotics, and more) across artistic fields including opera, dance, orchestra and drama. 

Helmholtz Information & Data Science Academy

(HIDA), the Academy for Theatre and Digitality has offered joint research fellowships at the interface of digital art and cutting edge scientific research since 2021. The HIDA fellowships are kindly supported by the 

PlayOn! New Storytelling With Immersive Technologies

 is a larger scale cooperation project, funded by Creative Europe, designed to understand, learn, test and apply immersive technology to theatre, in order to shift classical storytelling to interactive narrative formats.

Artificial Intelligence

VR (Virtual Reality)

Interactive

Sound Design

Projection/Mapping

3D Printing

XR (Extended Reality)

AV (Audiovisual Design)

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Gabriel Feltz

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Julia Wissert

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Andreas Gruhn

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Marcus Lobbes

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Project Lead, Artistic Lead, Composition, Text: 

Christoph Wirth

Sarah Buser

Markus Wagner

Media artist, director and composer Christoph Wirth and his team explore questions of collective behaviour patterns and their influence on the future. In QUEUE, the audience can enter an interactive, audiovisual environment in virtual reality and change it through their movement patterns and decisions. The result is an immersive, group-dynamic installation with game and radio play elements, inspired by Samuel Beckett's prose text ‘The Lost Ones’. 

A cooperation of Academy for Theatre and Digitality and the Theater Mülheim an der Ruhr in collaboration with OBLIQUE SENSATIONS (Christoph Wirth)

QUEUE

This collaboration between Ballett Dortmund/JugendTanzTheater and the Academy for Theatre and Digitality creates unusual perspectives for both the stage and the audience.

What did you hope to explore in terms of technology, form, and content?


A 'digital program booklet' accompanies the journey from the foyer to the auditorium and allows the dancers to have their say in advance. In the JugendTanzTheater, non-professional dancers have dedicated themselves to dance and rehearsed for their project several times a week for months.

“Painting is not an aesthetic endeavour, it is a form of magic, destined to be a mediator between that strange, hostile world and us. It is a way to seize power by giving shape to our horrors as well as our desires.” --Picasso

What did you hope to explore in terms of technology, form, and content?


Seven focal points: The chaos in the head finds its way onto the canvas. The suicide of his friend triggers a deep sadness that is reflected in the figures of the Blue Period. It is replaced by melancholy and renunciation in the Pink Period. Then a break with all conventions: Cubism is born. Faces become masks, bodies become geometric figures. For a short time, peace and serenity returned. Life appears like a summer on the beach, cheerful and light. Then the war painting Guernica breaks in, bringing chaos and destruction.

There is no denying that Picasso left his mark on modernism with his absolute sense of beauty, measure, colour and form. All phases of his seventy-plus years of work - as different as they may be - reflect his search for discovery, experience and new development. His great concern was that this path would one day end as if he had hit a brick wall.

How did the collaborators work together on this project?

For the first time, the JugendTanzTheater has the opportunity to work with music composed especially for this production. Choreographer Justo Moret worked in close collaboration with Tommy Finke (head of the Music Department at Schauspiel Dortmund for many years) to created the sound for the performance's seven phases.

Team

Justo Moret

“When I was a child, my mother said to me: 'If you become a soldier, you will become a general. If you become a monk, you will eventually become a pope. Instead, I tried painting and became Picasso.” 
Explaining the world through art - dance - and making it their own was the incentive for the dancers and their choreographer Justo Moret to engage with exceptional artist Pablo Picasso.
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A Ballett Dortmund/JugendTanzTheater production as part of the Creative Europe project PlayOn! in collaboration with the Academy for Theatre and Digitality

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