Robin Jonsson has an extensive record of incorporating advanced digital technology in performing arts processes. In his work “Get Real” he presents both dancers and audiences with a new genre of performing arts, which can only be experienced in VR – Virtual Reality. The performance takes shape in real-time and is created live by the present dancers and audience, in a genuine and intimate sense of community, in the borderland between a physical and digital setting.

In “Get Real”, dancers and a select number of audience members are on stage. They are wearing VR sets, making them present in the same virtual world. A larger audience observes while the dancers and the co-creating audience explore the digital environment. Slowly the virtual experience unfolds before them. Gradually and structured, the imaginative, epic, and fantastic VR world is revealed. The audience experiences what happens on stage and in the digital world simultaneously – an abstract yet fascinating experience – which is enhanced by the relationship between the dancers and the VR audience, as well as the cinematic soundscapes and music of the virtual world.