Created by the Spanish choreographer Blanca Li, the VR immersive performance Le Bal de Paris is a performance that perfectly blends the boundaries between the virtual and the real and won the Best Interactive VR Experience Award at the 2021 Venice Film Festival VR Expanded. After receiving thousands of visitors in Europe, Le Bal de Paris is finally making its debut in Asia in Taipei ,presented as the opening program for TIFA 2023 at The National Performing Arts Center National Theater and Concert Hall from February 18 to March 4, 2023.
Blanca Li is a choreographer, dancer and director. Since 2019, she has been a member of the French Academy of Fine Arts, and artistic director of Teatros del Canal in Madrid. She is continuously seeking new innovations in the interdisciplinary fields to bring experimental performing art projects to global audiences. Building on this interest, Le Bal de Paris is an immersive, participatory and interactive VR experience in which 10 spectators and 2 professional dancers perform the main characters in a physical space. Each spectator can move freely in the space and interact with dancers and each other in reality. Music and dance merge with VR to offer viewers an innovative, festive, and artistic journey, involving all the senses and the entirety of the body. In the avatar selection in advance of the start, each viewer can dress up their virtual avatars with fabulous costumes designed by Chanel. Then, spectators head off on an expedition through different universes to follow the love story of the protagonist Adele.
誠摯邀請你參加法國頂級晚宴，不僅有任選的香奈兒訂製禮服，隨著情節推進，綺麗炫目的歌舞和磅礡壯闊的場景更是吸睛度破表，從夢幻華爾滋、吉普賽舞曲到美豔的紅磨坊狂歡秀……這場奇幻巴黎舞會，將會是你不願醒來的清醒夢。
一舉奪下2021威尼斯影展最佳VR體驗獎的《巴黎舞會》，是西班牙編舞家布蘭卡．李，藉由VR沉浸式體驗，成功打造更勝《愛麗絲夢遊仙境》的奇幻歌舞劇，每個人都可以在空間中自由移動，並與舞者及其他賓客真實互動。來吧，一起解放肢體、釋放感官，展開一場跨越虛實界線的華麗冒險旅程！
Creative team
Blanca Li Design, libretto, direction and choreography
Tao Gutierrez Original music and musical direction
Vincent Chazal Direction of visual creation
Chanel Costumes
BackLight Studio Virtual Reality Development
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