No reality now
Vincent Dupont & Charles Ayats
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
On sale at Théâtre d’Arles
Arles
Wed. 6 and Thu. 7 Nov. 2024:
8pm
Duration: 45 min.
Prices: from €5 to €25
No reality now is an experiment combining dance on stage and virtual reality. It invites us into a beyond – inaccessible, unfathomable, unintelligible, like the death it ventures to stage.
On stage, a wake is surprised by a storm. The rain intensifies, the light flickers. Suddenly, the image appears. The virtual reality headset invites you into a parallel experience… The virtual copy of the scene distorts and takes liberties, offering a double reading of the play.
Produced by Dark Euphoria and J’y pense souvent (…). Programmed by Théâtre d’Arles and CHRONIQUES – Biennale des Imaginaires Numériques, in partnership with Octobre Numérique – Faire Monde. With support from ONDA. No reality now is presented as part of the European project Realities in Transition.
Also in Arles: Festival Octobre Numérique – Faire Monde In 2024, as the stakes of the climate crisis collide with the acceleration of the digital age, Octobre Numérique – Faire Monde explores the association between ecology and playful video creation, while challenging the imaginaries associated with our technologies and aesthetics. From October 9 to November 10, in Arles, the festival becomes a Permacomputing Playground. (Permacomputing Playground). Discover the program of interactive exhibitions, workshops, conferences, shows, debates, parties, game jam… on octobre-numerique.fr Ages 15 and up
Session reserved for accredited professionals on Nov. 6 at 4 p.m.
Prices: from €5 to €25 No reality now © Florian Salabertlutin
Presented and produced by Théâtre d’Arles : art et création, nouvelles écritures, in coproduction with CHRONIQUES – Biennale des Imaginaires Numériques and in partnership with Octobre Numérique – Faire Monde. Program presented as part of the European project Realities in Transition.
Artists
Vincent Dupont & Charles Ayats
Vincent Dupont
Initially an actor, Vincent Dupont worked with Thierry Thieû Niang and Georges Appaix, and later with Boris Charmatz. In 2001, he signed his first choreography, Jachères improvisations, and since then, while continuing to participate in the work of other artists, has led a body of work that shifts the expected definitions of choreographic art. Associate artist from 2015 to 2019 at ICI-Centre chorégraphique national de Montpellier, Vincent Dupont has been associated with the Centre des Arts d’Enghien-les-Bains since September 2019, and until 2023.
Charles Ayats
Charles Ayats is an author, director and designer of interactive and immersive experiences. Winner of the Haiku Interactif Arte/ ONF call for projects with Phi, he is interested in innovative and committed mediation projects, both in the form of web-documentaries (Check-in, Pas si bêtes les Animaux, Tati Express…), and videogames, such as Type:Rider, a playful triptych on the history of typography, co-produced in 2013. Always on the lookout for new ways to tell stories, he takes part in hackathons to enrich his feedback and training (Cifap, Gobelins, Dixit, INA). Fascinated by virtual reality, he adapted Marc-Antoine Mathieu’s graphic novel SENS (2016). He then co-wrote 7 Lives , an interactive VR tale directed by Jan Kounen (2019), and Le Cri (2019), an interpretation of Edvard Munch’s painting. Following the creation of the augmented reality short film M.O.A (2020), adapted from Alain Damasio’s futuristic novel Les Furtifs, he continues his reflections between narration, body and spatiality with proposals close to live performance such as Colonie.s and No reality now.
Credits & mentions
Presented and produced by the Théâtre d’Arles: art et création, nouvelles écritures, in co-production with CHRONIQUES – Biennale des Imaginaires Numériques and in partnership with Octobre Numérique – Faire Monde. Programme presented as part of the Realities in Transition project.