“Technology must be transparent” – Gilles Jobin (VR_I)

In Venice this September, at the heart of Venice Virtual Reality (in the Out of Competition – Best of VR / Interactive selection), choreographer and director Gilles Jobin brought a piece that pushed dance decisively into immersive space: VR_I. Developed with Geneva-based studio Artanim—born from his encounter with its founders Caecilia Charbonnier and Sylvain Chagué—the work places five participants in the same physical volume, equipped with headsets and free-roaming tracking, for an approximately 20-minute shared journey where you observe others, drift apart, collide, and reconnect as virtual bodies emerge and…