A practical, fun and hands-on workshop aimed at dancers, performers, visual and digital artists and technologists interested in what immersive technologies can offer to their creative practice.

We will explore Displace Studio’s approaches to making dance performance work with virtual and mixed-reality technologies. We will take a close look at the volumetric capture tools and techniques used in Displace Studio's latest project REPLICA, a dance piece utilising immersive technology to display a virtual dancer who interacts with a live performer. REPLICA explores human issues around digital doubles and how we present ourselves in digital spaces in a world of growing digitisation.

REPLICA is commissioned by The Space, with support from Broadway's Near Now and University of Nottingham.

Displace Studio is a Mixed Reality Performance Studio co-lead by Digital Dance Artist Kerryn Wise & Creative Technologist Ben Neal.

Exploring the intersection of dance, film, physical theatre and digital technology, Displace produce bold, boundary-pushing work that dances between the darkness and the light—reality and fantasy—creating deep, interpersonal, immersive experiences that encourage audiences to step into, behind, and around the edges of illusion.

Works often take the form of intimate, dreamlike journeys through uncertain places rich in symbolism and metaphor in which curious behaviours are encountered.