DUET

Creative Director & Choreographer: Brandon Powers
Technical Director: Alisia Martinez
Lead Developer: Aaron Santiago
Presented at New York Live Arts Live Artery 2022

DUET is a movement ritual for virtual reality. In a world navigating what it means to reconnect, DUET creates a moment of group spectacle from intimacy and transforms what VR and dance can be as well as who they’re for. In pairs, participants from the audience adorn headsets and are guided by interactive music and light through an immersive choreographic experience surrounded by an audience as witnesses. Together, their movement powers the experience climaxing in an impactful moment of physical connection. Both playful and meditative, DUET seeks to reimagine virtual reality as a space for embodied collaborative interaction and shift how we are accustomed to watching others move in a headset.