Festival Illusion participated in the prototyping support program run by Les 7 Doigts and SAT to explore a new performance language combining electronic music, dance, circus, digital arts, and artificial intelligence.
The UTOPIA project seeks to evolve rave culture: by integrating storytelling, human movement, and visual arts, the party becomes an immersive ritual, a sensory, poetic, and collective experience. The prototyping stage gave shape to three experimental scenes that lay the foundations for a new kind of show:
– The fabric of perception. A fabric that reveals the invisible
– The rite of metamorphosis. A passage that triggers visual transformations
– The flight into the invisible. An ascent that opens onto a surreal world
For this exploration, project leader Mokrane Ouzane surrounded himself with a multidisciplinary team: Guillaume Biron for staging, Lucas Fiorelli for sound and sound compositions, Matthieu Thoer for technical and interactive direction, Elianne Rochefort for interactivity, and Chady Ghorayeb for visual creation.
LAB7 and SAT assisted the team in choosing the technological solutions and equipment best suited to their project. We also provided valuable support in planning studio time to bring together multiple areas of expertise and run several explorations and developments in parallel. Thanks to our partnership with the HUPR Centre, students and graduates from the National Circus School also participated in the explorations to bring the interactive devices to life.
The prototyping support program welcomes three projects combining performing arts and technological arts in 2025. The projects benefit from customized support, both in the preparation and execution of a two-week prototyping phase, in the studios of the 7 Doigts Creation Center.
Follow the projet : Festival Illusion
This program is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, in partnership with the Society for Arts and Technology (SAT) and in collaboration with the Centre HUPR (formerly CRITAC) and the Petit Théâtre du Vieux Noranda.
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