Eve 3.0 is a creative process intended to serve as a case study for experimentation and research. The work is a hybrid performance of live contemporary dance and virtual reality, in which the audience participates in six narratives by dancing with both real and virtual actors, immersed in a multi-sensory experience.
The experience makes us reflect on common and widespread extreme states of consciousness such as addiction, anxiety, depression, obsession, jealousy and paranoia. Through the movements of the virtual bodies of six main characters, the stories question the recurring causes of these states of consciousness, and underline the encouragement to dialogue and sharing that the engagement of the body can generate.
August 14, 2025: prototype @ SIGGRAPH, Spatial Storytelling, Vancouver (Canada)
May 2nd, 2024: prototype @ Dance and/or technology, Agora du Cœur des Sciences de l'UQAM, Montreal (Canada). https://dancetech.ca
February 27 and 29, 2024: prototype @ Department of Health, Medical and Neuropsychology, VR Lab Space, Leiden University (The Netherlands)
November 16, 2023: prototype @ Les Rencontres ArTeC, Paris
October 14, 2023: prototype @ ZED Festival, Bologna (Italy)
June 25, 2023: prototype @ PAN Festival, Riva del Garda (Italy)
May 19 to 21, 2023: prototype @ Tifawt Rabat Digital Arts, Rabat (Morocco)
April 12 to 16, 2023: prototype @ Recto VRso Festival, Laval Virtual (France)
Credits
Choreography and artistic direction: Margherita Bergamo Meneghini
Stage assistance: Veronica Boniotti
Scriptwriters: Veronica Boniotti and Mark Lee
Interaction concept: Daniel González-Franco
VR development and 3D graphic design: John Desnoyers-Stewart
Music composer and sound designer: Dale Nichols
Visual design: Kirstin Huber and Amira-Sade Moodie (watercolor painter)
Costume design: Agnese Riaudo
Storyboard: Ari Schneider
Translations: Audrey Planchet, Mark Lee
Audiovisual support: Jade Annest, Aurélien Duval, Pietro Lepore, Émilie Léveillé
Motion capture: Anastasiia Ternova, Justine Waller
Live performer : Margherita Bergamo Meneghini, Élise Boileau
Motion capture dancers: Élise Boileau, Camille Chevalier, Benjamin Labruyère
Voices over : Maude Doublet-Viguié, David Fleury, Alexi Mondet, Lola Montaut, Charline Regnier, Mélissa Vaurin, Brian Flanagan, Robert Flanagan, Paulina Ruiz Carballido, Stéphanie Lorant, Inès Barragan, Élise Boileau, Remy Giordano, Jean-François Jégo, Ivana Miño, Audrey Planchet, Joahn Volmar, Ute Kohlmann, Veronica Boniotti, Giuseppe Claudio Insalaco, Riccardo Pieretti, Emanuele Regi, collettivo Arte delle Muse
Performance management assistance: Julien Lomet, Araceli Mossino, Giuseppe Claudio Insalaco, Vennila Vilvanathan, Benjamin Huppé, Louis-Philippe Huppé
Dear Diary producer and co-scriptwriter: Mark Lee
Dear Diary production manager: Maria Leon Arraez
Dear Diary camera operator: Thomas Bresard
Dear Diary post production : Thomas Villepoux, Maxime Beucher
Dear Diary styling: Maeva Blanchard, Juliette Launay
Dear Diary choreography assistance: Camille Nerry
Dear Diary dancers: Maude Doublet-Viguié, David Fleury, Alexi Mondet, Lola Montaut, Charline Regnier, Mélissa Vaurin, Camille Nerry
Creative producer Compagnie Voix: Mark Lee
Associate producers Compagnie Voix: Linda Gabbay, Margherita Bergamo Meneghini
Associate producer Digital Rise: François Klein
Production: Compagnie Voix
Supported in development by Digital Rise and with the participation of Seesaw Project.
With the support of Culture Moves Europe, EUR ArTeC, France Active Bourgogne, FDVA, Département de Saône-et-Loire, Région Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Château Éphémère - Fabrique sonore et numérique, Artdam Longvic, Laval Virtual Center & Recto VRso festival, the provision of studios at CN D - Centre national de la danse Paris and at DansBlok Leiden.
Thanks to Edesta University Paris 8, School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver BC), BeAnotherLab, Omnipresenz, Institut Marey I3M Université de Bourgogne Dijon, L'Atheneum Dijon and Le Centquatre-Paris.
This work has benefited from state aid managed by the National Research Agency under the Future Investments program bearing the reference ANR-17-EURE-0008.
This work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.
