Gilles Jobin and his digital dance company created La comédie virtuelle, the digital model of la comédie, a real theatre being built in Geneva. La comédie virtuelle is a multi user social experience accessible in VR and with desktops computers. Just like a real theatre, audience, represented as avatars, can gather together to visit the building, talk to each other, interact and assist to performances in real time. After its inauguration La comédie virtuelle will function as an active XR hub for research and production for the regular digital program of la comédie in Geneva. For the Venice Biennale, Gilles Jobin and his digital dance company present a live performance in real time everyday of the festival.
Kim Vincs and the EMD studio team are collaborating with Gilles Jobin to enable Victorian dancer, Victoria Chiu, to perform in the work from Sydney, alongside Diya Naidu, working with Viga Entertainment in Bangalore, and dancers Susana Panadés Diaz, Rudi van der Merwe, József Trefeli in Geneva.