Angel VR is a multi award-winning one to one virtual reality immersive experience, between the main character “angel” (a sophisticated warrior in an impossible world) and a single audience member, allowing an intimate and personalised experience between the two. “angel” is based on the choreographer’s movement Avatâra Ayuso, using motion capture to create the avatar.
The work is ready to tour from August 2024. You can download the pack here
Angel VR was creative with three aspects in mind, used to carefully build the on-boarding (prepare the audience), the experience itself on the headsets and the off-boarding (what happens after the experience):
How immersive approaches broaden possibilities of digital storytelling. Enhancing experiences, challenging conventions and giving users a more active role.
How can spectators partake in an emotional journey with the character which portrays multiple emotional textures?
Which spaces can be created for the performer and audience members to interact outside the real world?
Angel (the choreography) was originally inspired by one of the most enigmatic and invisible characters in Luis Buñuel’s classic film The Exterminating Angel. In this film the main characters of the Mexican high society get stuck in a mansion, without knowing what stops them from being exiting, there is an unseen energy that feels threatening, unreal, inexplicable….For the choreographer Avatâra Ayuso this is energy is the Angel. The sport of fencing is used to influence the choreographic choices of the work. It has been performed in a range of settings, from traditional black box theatres, to galleries, museums and outdoor spaces and has now been transformed into a one-one immersive VR experience.
ANGEL VR has been made possible thanks to the financial support of Arts Council England and Rose Bruford College.
The team is proud to share that ANGEL VR has received multiple international awards in festivals across the world as Best VR Experience. We are greateful to all those that made this work possible.
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Avatâra Ayuso
Miyu Matsumoto
Enrique Muñoz
Dave Pritchard
Dr Rosa Cisneros
Enkhar P. Blanco
Paul Long
Samuel Lawrence
Kyle Ruta
Callum Mitchell & Craig Shield
Kirsty Hillyer
Donald Hutera
Graham Watts
Jialong Ma
Dan Edge
Andrew Hurst, Alex Burgoyne, Asma Hussain, Brie, Carmine De Amicis, Estela Merlos, Foteini Christofilopoulou, Hannah Thomas, Karen Stewart, Karen Stewart, Lewis Pycroft, Mara Borsa, Mary Oliver, Matthew Smith, Melanie Whitehead, Michael Otteson, Morgan Szarvas, Nick Hunt, Shannan Uttaro, Sherisse Bisram, Sofia Alexiadou, Wayne Parsons, Yining Chen, Zhibo Zhao