This 15 minute VR experience puts you in the centre of a contemporary dance performance by the Sydney Dance Company through occulus rift goggles and headphones. Three participants at a time, you stand on a stage in front of the “audience” (the waiting line) with a dance barre to hold on to for grounding. While waiting, we saw a few people go through the experience. Some brave and wonderful people just let loose and danced away with no care in the world! It was such a delight to see people’s visceral reactions to the energy of the dancers and theatre atmosphere. Furthermore, it was amazing to see how truly transported you could be during a VR experience. When your sense of sight and hearing are so explicitly affected, what’s to say what’s real or not? Media is totally shifting the way we tell and experience stories and it’s so exciting to see what media makers throw at us next.

Beyond the novelty of the experience, the short film (can I call it that??) also explores the displacement of identity, control, and expression which elevates it from gimmick to truly meaningful medium.