For two days, keynotes and workshops were held exploring the intersection between dance and technology, involving academics and segments of the audiovisual, video game, and dance industries, with the participation of national and international experts and international support from 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 extended reality performance of Gilles Jobin's award-winning show Cosmogony, which connected geographically separated dancers in real-time. (VFXRio offers simultaneous translation: English/Portuguese | Free registration | Limited spaces)

*Presencial na Casa Firjan
Endereço: R. Guilhermina Guinle, 211 – Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro – RJ, 22260-001

*Coffee breaks are included during the intervals of VFXRio Dance.

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

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

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

Moderated by Nayse Lopéz – Journalist and curator since 1992. As a curator, dance critic, and journalist, she has organized numerous exhibitions and conferences in the areas of dance, performing arts, and cultural cooperation. Among her most recent projects is the International Conference on Dance and Cultural Cooperation, held in Rio and São Paulo in 2005. Since 2001, she has been a guest curator for the Panorama Festival, becoming its general and artistic director in 2006, as well as director of other projects of the Panorama Cultural Association. She is also the founder and editor of the dance-focused website www.idanca.net.

This lecture will present a computational system developed at the VISGRAF Laboratory – IMPA for the creation of dance performances. The system, part of Adriana Schulz's master's research under the supervision of Luiz Velho, allows for the creation of virtual group performances and the visualization of real choreographies. Using motion capture of dance sequences synchronized with a musical track, the system adapts motion synthesis methods to control the group of dancers on stage, including the creation of formations and the tracking of trajectories. The integrated platform enables collaboration between artists, allowing the performance to evolve naturally from iterative contributions from dancers, musicians, and choreographers. (In-person keynote).

Analivia Cordeiro's seminal work, titled 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 computational processing to coordinate dance and video movements. For 50 years, her research evolved and reached its final stage with the proposition of a notation and writing system for human movement through the BodyWay Nota-Anna application in 2023. Since 1983, she has shared her research with engineer Nilton Lobo. (In-person keynote)

Globo's Innovation Team will present the powerful fusion between dance and technology. They will reveal the behind-the-scenes creation of content for real-time broadcast involving dance and motion capture. They will explore how technology can revolutionize the world of dance, allowing movements and body expression to be captured and transmitted live with precision and emotion. They will also explore the endless possibilities offered by virtual characters integrated with motion capture, from the development of innovative choreography to the creation of captivating digital characters. (In-person keynote)

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

From early experiments in 1973 to the results of using Deep Learning, in a bodily practice anchored in 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 prior dance experience is necessary. (In-person workshop)

Tools: MOVE, ROKOKO, MOVE.AI, DEEPMOTION – In this meeting, we will discuss some tools and technologies that are proving to be excellent options for low-budget projects, as well as the learning and integration of young people and teenagers into the 3D animation market for Games and Animation.
We will discuss the importance of AI and Machine Learning in the development of video motion capture tools, as well as the ease of setup without the need for powerful computers or expensive accessories, to deliver excellent results. The tools used in this workshop 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)