SEITE WIRD GELADEN

SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG

“Das Totale Tanz Theater is a captivating illusion machine – spectacular as an experience, as a work of art, as a continuation and extension of the Bauhaus idea into the 21st century."

ARTE

“Walter Gropius and Oskar Schlemmer would surely have been thrilled.”

DER TAGESSPIEGEL

“The virtual reality installation gives rise to a fascinating artistic world of total theatre.”

la Presse +, canada

“L'environnement spatial est impressionant. Acrophobes s'abstenir!”

devolkskrant, netherlands

“Wel, het ís een wonderlijke en ook wat intimiderende ervaring.”

Museumsportal, berlin

"Das Totale Tanz Theater – an exceptional project, that combines historic research, state-of-the-art-Technology of today and artistic visions of the future."

100 Years of Bauhaus – The laboratory of modernism

Founded 100 years ago in Weimar, the Bauhaus’s influence on architecture, art, design and educational science can still be felt today. 100 years ago, the question of people’s role in the mechanical age was tackled on the Bauhaus stage in both artistic and experimental terms.

Das Totale Tanz Theater

has taken up the theme, exploring the question of the role of people in the digital age in the form of a virtual reality dance experience, inspired by the stage experiments of Oskar Schlemmer and Walter Gropius, with choreography by Richard Siegal.

A dance addressing the question: Who controls who?

The interplay between dance, music and sound design, costume design and scenography with algorithms and digital technology brings the story to life across three levels: Together with a "Tanzmaschine", users pass through a dance choreography, always accompanied by the question of the extent of the scope of their influence on the surrounding space and the machine.

RECOGNITIONS

Festival

Beijing International Film Festival

Official Selection

2020

DDA

Digital Installation VR / AR

2020

New York Festivals TV &Film Awards

2020

VR Days Europe

OFFICIAL SELECTION

2019

Save Festival Moscow

Official Selection

2019

Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur

Official Selection

2019

Geneva International Film Festival

Official Selection

2019

L.E.V. Madrid

Official Selection

2019

Open City Doc Festical London

Official Selection

2019

Emerging Music Festival Québec

Official Selection

2019

FILE Festival Brasil

Official Selection

2019

Prix Italia

Shortlist: Web Factual

2019

Sandbox Immersive Festival Qingdao

Official Selection

2019

CPH:DOX

Official Selection

2019

Cannes XR

Official Selection

2019

VRHAM!

Official Selection

2019

Design

Forbes Top 35

VR Installations in 2019

2020

Epica Award

GOLD

2019

Annual Multimedia Award

GOLD

2020

Red Dot Award

Interface &User Experience Design

2019

Art Directors Club

Grand Prix

2019

Art Directors Club

4 Golden Nails

2019

Captures of the stage and the Tanzmaschinen from Das Totale Tanz Theater

Installation & 360°

MULTI-USER INSTALLATION

Four people simultaneously immerse themselves into the world of Das Totale Tanz Theater, always with sight of the other respective users and of their virtual stage platforms and dance performances. They are standing, enclosed by a semi-transparent gauze ring, upon which projections of the dance machines connect the happenings in the virtual world with the real world.

SINGLE-USER EXPERIENCE

The single-user experience conveys the interactive experience – scalable and flexible in terms of space. In this case too, projections link the virtual world to the real world.

360º VR Music Video

With music by Einstürzende Neubauten and choreography by Richard Siegal, embedded into Das Totale Tanz Theater’s stage world, the 360° video can be experienced best in revolving chairs.

Bauhaus Spirit - Das Totale Tanz Theater is part of the crossmedia project BAUHAUS SPIRIT, which transports the Bauhaus’s ideas and approach into the present and future: www.bauhaus-spirit.com.

THE MAKING-OF

Phenomenal stage construction, costumes whose sheer beauty unfolds as they move, constantly evolving choreography over three levels, and music and sound design which underscore the story’s dramaturgy. The ‘making of’ offers insights into how Das Totale Tanz Theater was created.

INSZENIERUNG 
IM RAUM

Das Totale Tanz Theater feiert Premiere im Rahmen des offiziellen Eröffnungsfestivals des Bauhausjahres in der Akademie der Künste Berlin am Hanseatenweg. Ein mit semi-transparenter Gaze bespannter Ring von 6 Metern Durchmesser umschließt die vier Nutzer der Multiuser-Installation. Projektionen der Tanzmaschinen aus dem Inneren von Das Totale Tanz Theater verbinden die virtuelle mit der realen Welt und machen die Tanzmaschinen auch für außenstehende Zuschauer zugänglich. Eine Projektion, die die Tanzmaschinen „behind the scenes“ zeigt, stimmt die Besucher ein und führt sie zur Installation.

HIER ERLEBEN

HOW IT IS STAGED

Das Totale Tanz Theater debuted as part of the official opening festival commemorating the Bauhaus’s anniversary, held at the Academy of Arts Berlin, Hanseatenweg. A 6m-diameter ring covered with semi-transparent gauze encloses the four users in the multi-user installation. Projections of the dance machines from inside Das Totale Tanz Theater connect the virtual world to the real world, making the dance machines accessible to the spectators outside the ring.
A projection that shows the dance machines ‘behind the scenes’ gets the visitors in the mood, and leads them to the installation.

EXPERIENCE IT HERE

AKADEMIE DER KÜNSTE BERLIN 16 - 24 JAN. 2019
AKADEMIE DER KÜNSTE BERLIN 16 - 24 JAN. 2019
AKADEMIE DER KÜNSTE BERLIN 16 - 24 JAN. 2019
Phi Centre Montreal © Sandra Larochelle
FILE Festival Sao Paulo
FILE Festival Sao Paulo

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TAKE ME TO THE TOURPLAN
Art Directors Club
Grand Prix
2019
Forbes Top 35
VR Installations in 2019
2020
Cannes XR
Official Selection
2019

CONTACT

Interactive Media Foundation gGmbH
Reichenberger Str. 88
10999 Berlin / Germany

Phone: +49 (0)30 92101320

E-Mail: dttt@interactivemedia-foundation.com

Press kit

Press materials for download: Video Teasers, Logos, Picture Releases and Press Texts.

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Credits

A PROJECT OF
CO-CREATED WITH
FUNDED BY
TEAM

Idea & Story

Diana Schniedermeier

MAYA PUIG

LEAD VR CREATORS

MAYA PUIG

Patrik De Jong

DIRK HOFFMANN

LEAD TECHNOLOGIST

TORSTEN SPERLING

Sebastian Hein

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

DIANA SCHNIEDERMEIER

CHOREOGRAPHY

RICHARD SIEGAL

COMPOSITION

LORENZO BIANCHI-HOESCH

DANCERS

MARGARIDA NETO

CLAUDIA ORTIZ ARRAIZA

COREY SCOTT-GILBERT

DIEGO TORTELLI

VOICE

BLIXA BARGELD

CREATIVE PRODUCER

MAYA PUIG

COSTUMES

DIRK HOFFMANN

NIcO ALEXANDER TANIYAMA

CONCEPT

DIRK HOFFMANN

PATRIK DE JONG

ART DIRECTOR

DIRK HOFFMANN

NICO ALEXANDER TANIYAMA

ROBERT WERNER

3D ARTIST LEAD

NICO ALEXANDER TANIYAMA

3D ARTIST

DANA WÜRZBURG

CHRISTIAN RAMBOW

CHOREOGRAPHY PROGRAMMING

TORSTEN SPERLING

TECHNOLOGIST

DENNIS TIMMERMANN

HUI-YUAN TIEN

SOUND DESIGN

VICTOR AUDOUZE

INSTALLATION ARCHITECTURE

UNIT BERLIN

MOTION CAPTURE FACILITATORS

MIMIC PRODUCTIONS

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

THORSTEN SCHWARCK

JOCHEN WATRAL

KRISTIN SPERLING

CO-PRODUCER

SASKIA KRESS

MICHAEL GROTENHOFF

360
THE 360° VIDEO DAS TOTALE TANZ THEATER 360 IS BASED ON THE VR EXPERIENCE OF THE SAME NAME, CREATED BY THE INTERACTIVE MEDIA FOUNDATION & ARTIFICIAL ROME, IN COOPERATION WITH ZDF/ARTE.

CHOREOGRAPHY

RICHARD SIEGAL

MUSIC

"Si Takka Lumi" By
Einstürzende Neubauten

(Bargeld / Bargeld, Chudy, Hacke, Moser, Arbeit), Produced by Einstürzende Neubauten and Boris Wilsdorf

DIRECTOR

MAYA PUIG

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

DIANA SCHNIEDERMEIER

Artificial Rome VR Leads

Patrik De Jong, Dirk Hoffmann, Torsten Sperling, Sebastian Hein,
Nico Alexander Taniyama

EDITING

INVR.SPACE

Philipp Wenning, Jessice Zippel