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Simon Speiser, Norbert Pape

Touching Clouds

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In this VR-interactive performance, spectators enter a space where the physical and digital merge. Floating stones and leaves respond to movement and touch, creating an invisible dance shaped by the viewers’ own bodies. Observers from the outside witness a spontaneously emerging group choreography as participants move through the virtual environment.

Touching Clouds explores the materiality and bodily presence of the digital. With AI elements and crowd behavior simulations, the experience emphasizes touch and interaction, sometimes perceived as warmth or tingling on the skin. The work raises questions about collectivity, perception, and bodily movement in a technologically mediated world, while establishing rhythms generated entirely by the body. The VR space evokes a dreamlike, ritual atmosphere that invites reflection, presence, and gentle meditation.

Digital on touching clouds

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Music Franziska Aigner

Text and Voice Göksu Kunak, Hanako Hayakawa, Taís Lobo, Pêdra Costa

Dramaturgy Austin Gross

Code Development Simon Speiser, Norbert Pape

With the support of the VR residency Beyond Gravity, Theater im Depot Dortmund

NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK – STEPPING OUT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, NEUSTART KULTUR Dance Support Program. Code development supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR program.