No reality now
No reality now
Vincent Dupont and Charles Ayats
Dance and VR show | 2023
What if there were other realities to which we had no access? Other lives, other worlds, other deaths, as close as they are imperceptible.
No reality now is a show that combines dance on stage and virtual reality. It invites us into a beyond – inaccessible, unfathomable, unintelligible, like the death it ventures to stage. In the stands, spectators are equipped with a virtual reality helmet fitted with a handle, which they can remove and put back on at will. In this way, they can alternate as they wish between the virtual and real worlds.
“Drawn by visions often born of dreams or nightmares, Vincent Dupont refines the spectacular means of bringing them to life on stage, opening up a whole new space of experience.” Rosita Boisseau, Télérama
Selections
Delegated production
Dark Euphoria
Lieu Unique – Nantes national stage
Théâtre Nouvelle Génération – CDN de Lyon
Center National de la Danse, Pantin
Center des Arts – scène conventionnée d’intérêt national – Enghien les Bains
CNDC, Angers
ICI-CCN, Montpellier | Occitanie Pyrénées Méditerranée
Espace des Arts – scène nationale de Chalon-sur-Saône
Théâtre d’Arles
Hong Kong Arts Festival, March 2025
Théâtre d’Arles – Octobre Numérique (Faire Monde), November 6 and 7, 2024
French tour 2023: Espace des Arts – Festival Transdanse, Chalon-sur-Saône | Centre des Arts, Enghien-les-Bains – France Némo Biennial | CND – Centre National de la Danse, Pantin | Lieu Unique – Festival Trajectoires Nantes
Premiere: Biennale de la Danse / TNG – Pôle Pixel, Lyon, November 2023
Theater 2.0: when live performance meets XR technologiesFisheye Immersive
“Our device offers a double vision that leaves the choice to the viewer”.XR must
Where visuals and dance come together in two opposing approachescultnews
“No reality nowTélérama – Rosita Boisseau
The making-of: everything you need to know about creating a VR showFisheye Immersive
Center National du Cinéma et de l’image animée
DICRéAM, CNC
Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region
Île de France region
City of Paris
ArTeC
CHIMÈRES program from the French Ministry of Culture – DGCA, supported by Lieu Unique scène nationale de Nantes, Théâtre Nouvelle Génération – CDN de Lyon, Espace des Arts scène nationale de Châlon-sur-Saône and CND – Centre National de la Danse.
The French government as part of the Scènes augmentées project, financed by the #France2030 scheme “Augmented experience of live performance”, operated by the Banque des territoires.
Design
Vincent Dupont and Charles Ayats
Création chorégraphique et scénographique | Vincent Dupont
Interprétation | Elsa Dumontel, Lazare Huet, Mey Provost
Création lumière | Yves Godin
Création sonore | Vanessa Court, Raphaëlle Latini
Chant et travail vocal | Valérie Joly
Conception costumes | Eric Martin
Réalisation costumes Hélène Martin Longstaff, Didier Despin
Artistic collaboration | Myriam Lebreton
Set construction | Sylvain Giraudeau
Stage management | Sylvain Giraudeau or Anne Wagner Dit Reinhardt
Sound management | Brice Kartmann
Lighting management | Iannis Japiot or Nathalie De Rosa
Network and general management | Thibaut Le Garrec
VR management | Anastasiia Ternova
Digital Experience
Conception dispositif scène augmentée | Small Creative
Technologue créatif | Jean Dellac
Direction artistique VR | Florian Salabert
Tech artist | Pierre Didier Développeurs | Sofiane Tihdaini et Pierre Roquin
Design VR accessories | YouFactory
Prototype
Developer | Guillaume Depestèle
3D artist | Nicolas Brunet
Financial partners
Homido
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Acknowledgements
Pierre-Olivier Deschamps, Elisabeth Caravella, Sabrina Calvo, Guillaume Depestèle – GJGears