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Still Moving

Mixed Reality performance

October 2024

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STILL MOVING

Still Moving invites you into a space where instinctive physicality meets linguistic thinking, using mixed reality (MR). The project, part of the larger Held in Human series, explores the meaning of presence and “being in a body” in a contemporary world where technology significantly extends and mediates human experience. Equipped with a see-through VR headset that allows for both physical and digital navigation, the performer—who may be you, the audience—enters a dynamic “thought space.” We invite up to three performers at a time to lend their bodies to the dramaturgy. Each participant brings their own unique physicality, imagination, and interpretation, contributing to an evolving choreographic language and inclusive dramaturgy.

Authors: Liis Vares and Taavet Jansen
XR developer: Norbert Pape
Sound design: Mihkel Tomberg
Photographer Alana Proosa & Urška Boljkovac/CoFestival archive

Developed as part of a MODINA network residency at Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava in Tallinn in spring 2025

“Held in Human II: Rose in Your Brain” shows how technology can be designed, when the objective is not progress or conquest, but technology’s imaginative and empathetic use for artistic ends. And the result? Well, perhaps the kind of mixed reality we, as humanity, truly need.

Sveta Grigorjeva

“Held in Human II: Rose in Your Brain” shows how technology can be designed, when the objective is not progress or conquest, but technology’s imaginative and empathetic use for artistic ends. And the result? Well, perhaps the kind of mixed reality we, as humanity, truly need.

Sveta Grigorjeva

“Held in Human II: Rose in Your Brain” shows how technology can be designed, when the objective is not progress or conquest, but technology’s imaginative and empathetic use for artistic ends. And the result? Well, perhaps the kind of mixed reality we, as humanity, truly need.