Over two days, Keynotes and Workshops were held that explored the intersection between dance and technology, involving academics and segments of the audio visual, electronic games and dance industries, with the participation of national and international experts and with the international support of Swissnex and Cie Gilles Jobin. The workshop aimed to foster the exchange of knowledge and the development of new businesses and projects. The program included a live performance in extended reality of Gilles Jobin's award-winning show Cosmogony, which connected geographically separated dancers in real-time. ( VFXRio has simultaneous translation: English/Portuguese | Free registration | Limited places)

*Presential at Casa Firjan
Address: R. Guilhermina Guinle, 211 - Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro - RJ, 22260-001

*Coffee-break is included during the VFXRio Dance breaks.

SEPTEMBER 7: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Keynote: Performances in Real Time: Art, Science and Technology

Opening keynote with Gilles Jobin, acclaimed founding choreographer of Cie Gilles Jobin, in a talk that explores the captivating intersection between real-time technology and live performance. With a distinguished career spanning decades, Jobin has been at the forefront of fusing dance and technology, pushing artistic boundaries and extending the possibilities of the performing arts. (Hybrid keynote mediated in-person by Nayse López).

Gilles Jobin - Swiss artistic director and choreographer - He has created more than two dozen shows since 1995, all critically and publicly acclaimed around the world. In 2017, he created VR_i, an immersive dance show using Virtual Reality, which won the innovation and audience award at the Festival du Nouveal Cinema in Montreal. The work has been featured in over 40 performances around the world, including Sundance Festival, Venice Film Festival, Dance Biennale in Lyon and BAM in NY.

Mediated by Nayse Lopéz - journalist and curator since 1992. She has organized - as curator, dance critic and journalist - several exhibitions and conferences in the field of dance, performing arts and cultural cooperation. Among her latest projects: the International Conference on Dance and Cultural Cooperation, held in Rio and São Paulo in 2005. Since 2001 she has been guest curator of the Panorama Festival, becoming in 2006 general and artistic director of the Festival and other projects of the Panorama Cultural Association. She is also the founder and editor of the specialized dance website www.idanca.net.

In this talk, a computational system developed at VISGRAF Laboratory - IMPA for the creation of dance performances will be presented. The system, part of Adriana Schulz's master's research under the supervision of Luiz Velho, allows the creation of virtual group performances and the visualization of real choreographies. Using motion captures of dance sequences synchronized with a musical track, the system adapts motion synthesis methods for controlling the group of dancers on stage, including creating formations and following trajectories. The integrated platform enables collaboration between artists, allowing the show to evolve naturally from iterative contributions from dancers, musicians and choreographers. (Keynote in person).

Analivia Cordeiro's seminal work, entitled M 3×3, from 1973, is considered the first video artwork to emerge from South America and one of the first dance choreographies created specifically for video, using computer processing to coordinate dance and video movements. During 50 years, her research evolved and reached the final stage with the proposition of a notation and writing of human movement through the BodyWay Nota-Anna app, in 2023. Since 1983, she shares her research with engineer Nilton Lobo. (Keynote in person)

Globo's Innovation Team will present the powerful fusion between dance and technology. Behind the scenes of creating content for real-time viewing involving dance and motion capture will be revealed. It will explore how technology can revolutionize the world of dance, allowing body movements and expression to be captured and broadcast live, with precision and emotion. The endless possibilities that virtual characters integrated with motion capture offer will be explored together, from developing innovative choreography to creating captivating digital characters. (Keynote in person)

COSMOGONY is a live real-time digital performance, featuring 3 dancers being captured in motion live at #Studios44MocapLab in Geneva and displayed in real-time remotely. The dancers' movements are captured in Geneva, broken down into digital 'bits' and sent instantly through cyberspace to appear as on-screen avatars in real time to a live audience thousands of kilometers away from the company's studio.

From the first experiments in 1973 to the results of the use of Deep Learning, in a body practice anchored with the technology of each era.Analivia Cordeiro and computer scientist Nilton Lobo will lead a dance and movement workshop, in which participants will be guided through movement exercises and create original choreographies inspired by the relationships between the body, movement, visual and audiovisual art, and media technology. No previous dance experience is required (In-person workshop).

Tools: MOVE, ROKOKO, MOVE.AI, DEEPMOTION - In this meeting, we will address some tools and technologies that are presenting themselves as excellent options for low budget projects in addition to learning and inserting young people and teenagers in the 3D animation market for Games and Animation.
We will talk about the importance of A.I. and Machine Learning in the development of video motion capture tools, as well as the ease of configuration without the need for powerful computers or high-cost accessories, to deliver an excellent result. The tools used in this meeting will be: Unreal Engine, Move.ai, Rokoko Video and Iphone applications such as: Unreal Remote, Live Link Face and Live Link VCAM.(In-person workshop).