Blur

Theatre 18€

Friday 7 May · until 15 May

BLUR presents a new myth for the modern era, where science changes our relationship with life and death. A production that brings together Phi Studio and Riverbed Theatre in a reflective journey about ethics, identity, and mourning.

Synopsis And if we could defeat death? BLUR presents a new myth for the modern era, in which science has changed the way we view life and death. With cloning and advances in the biology of resurrection, the boundaries between the living and the dead, the natural and the artificial, become blurred. This theatrical production marks the encounter between Phi Studio, by Phoebe Greenberg, an immersive design studio from Montreal at the forefront of extended reality, and Riverbed Theatre, a Taiwanese theatre company directed by Craig Quintero, which explores the boundaries between visual and performing arts with recurring surrealism. Inspired by the Theatre of the Absurd, inhabited by hybrid creatures and AI entities, BLUR meets the present moment, unfolding as a dreamlike scenario that oscillates between the real and the virtual, leading participants on a reflective journey about ethics, identity, mourning, and eternity. Talk with artists on May 15. Artistic Team creation Craig Quintero and Phoebe Greenberg interpretation Alfonso Lee, Avery Lin, Chang-Hao Wang, Eirini Mpountali, Gesine Moog, Hsiang Lin, Kai-Wen Chuang, Maxine Denis, Mei-Chun Hsiang, Ning Chang, Phoebe Greenberg, Shiou-Ling Sheng, Sia-Jhih Lin, Vanessa Cheng, Xin-Qi Che, Yu-Chen Chien, Yu-Hsin Yu, Yu-Ling Wang music Yu-Jun Wang sound design Chin-Lun Kao choreography Edouard Lock supervision visual experience Mélanie Courtinat 2D animation Caroline Robert creative and interactive development PHI Studio, Thomas Azoug (software), Édouard Lanctôt-Benoît (creative development), Victor Groot (technical artist), Aurele Chanal (programming and integration) Jérémie Ranc (modeling assistance), Madison Dinelle, Marc-André Nadeau (technological direction), Karina Marquez Caballero (technological assistance), Kevan Rahimaly (production coordination) design Immersive Theatre Riverbed Theatre, Craig Quintero, Carl Johnson (set design), Carl Johnson, Chang-Chih Chen, Shiou-Ling Shen (stage painting), Sammy Lin, Chih-Chen Hsu (stage technical consultant), Wen-Tse Chen, Tien-Hung Wang (lighting design), Hsiang-Ting Teng (haptic effects integration and control) 3D elements, environments and visual effects Behaviour Interactive 360º films Funique VR motion capture LAB 7 motion capture data processing Game On volumetric capture IP Lab prototyping support Onassis Culture production PHI Studio, Riverbed Theatre, Onassis Culture executive production Coline Delbaere, Julie Tremblay (Phi Studio), Su-Ling Yeh (Riverbed Theatre), Prodromos Tsiavos (Onassis Culture) official presentation partner National Theater & Concert Hall (Taiwan) in partnership with Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB) funding Canada Media Fund, Taiwan Creative Content Agency, Société de développement des entreprises culturelles, Onassis Culture This project is funded by the Taiwan Creative Content Agency grant, Innovative Content Grant for International Co-Funding or Co-Productions Prices Stage - 18€ Discounts Families Groups (+10 people) Youth (up to 30 years) Specific Needs Unemployed Performing Arts Professionals Seniors (+65 years)