Tidal Traces
Captured offshore on intertidal mudflats near Vancouver, Tidal Traces is a 360-video VR dance piece that places viewers in the centre of the performance. In it, three characters explore a new and uncertain world—moving between tranquility and ominousness, beauty and peril. Entangled in this tension, the viewer becomes the fourth character, directly composing the dance through their gaze.
Created by Emmalena Fredriksson and Nancy Lee, in collaboration with dancers Lexi Vajda, Zhara Shahab and Rianne Švelnis and composer Kiran Bhumber. Through a year long residency at the Dance Centre 2016- 2017 Lee and Fredriksson explored choreographic possibilities of VR 360 Dance Film. They filmed a demo version and successfully pitched the project to the National Film Board. The NFB produced the final version that was filmed in the summer of 2017.
Screenings to date include:
Tokyo, 2017 MUTEK - electronic music and digital arts festival
Paris, 2018 Le festival Ciné-corps
Berlin, 2018 Canada Big on VR.
Vancouver, 2018 VIWFF
Austin, TX, 2018 Canada Big on VR.
Miami, 2018 Miami Film Festival’s Virtual Escape
Vancouver, 2018 Reel to Real Film Festival
Montreal, 2018 MUTEK_img
Brussels, BOZAR I love Science
Ottawa, 2018Americas Cultural Summit 2018
Cannes, 2018 PHI Centre presentation
Vancouver, 2018 RUPTURE
Montreal, 2018 IX Symposium
Mexico City, 2018 MICA (Market & Industry, Cinema and Audiovisual)
Vancouver, 2018 R2R Outdoor Summer Film Series
Durban, ZA, 2018 Intl Symposium on Electronic Art
La Rochelle, 2018 Sunny Side of the Doc
Montreal, 2018 FANTASIA
Toronto, 2018TAIWANfest
Montreal, 2018 La Station F-MR
Vancouver, 2018 TAIWANfest
Lyon FR, 2018 Arles VR festival during the Dance Biennale of Lyon
Bristol, UK, 2018 Encounters Festival
Gothenburg, SWE, 2018 Audiovisual Days
Chicago, 2018 Zhou B Art Center
Paris, 2018 SATIS 360 FILM FESTIVAL
Dusseldorf, 2019 festival Temps d’Images
Regina, 2019 Regina Public Library
Montreal, 2019 Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
Bristol, UK, 2019 Limina Immersive