RESET! Beasts and Demons
Cie Gilles Jobin / 2024
Overview
RESET! Beasts and Demons is a hybrid choreographic creation where real bodies and virtual bodies coexist on stage.
A motion-capture system installed on the stage captures the dancers’ movements live. The data is transformed into real-time visuals—avatars, and virtual allegories projected onto stage screens.
The piece plays with the “gap” between realities: what you see in front of you, what you see on screens, and what your brain tries to reconcile.
What I did
On this production, my role focused on the real-time pipeline and stage operation:
- Built and maintained the Unity real-time environment used for the live projections
- Implemented mocap data ingestion and mapping to avatars
- Worked on scene logic, states, cues, and reliable transitions for live performance
- Optimized the Open World Scene for performance stability
- Optimized for touring reliability
- Digital stage management during performances (running the real-time system live)
Technical notes
- Live mocap data drives rigs / forms in Unity
- Real-time rendering output is integrated into the stage projection workflow
- The system is designed to remain stable under live conditions (fixed framerate targets, predictable state machine behavior, quick reset paths)
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Credits
- Artistic direction & choreography
- Gilles Jobin
- Lead dance artist
- Susana Panadés Diaz
- Dancers
- Maëlle Deral, Ivan Larson, Susana Panadés Diaz
- Music (live)
- Simone Aubert, POL
- Unity Developer & Digital Stage Management
- Adryan Barrilliet
- Motion capture
- Marthe Lepeltier
- Motion capture system & technical support
- Qualisys Motion Capture Technology
- Creative technologist
- Camilo De Martino
- Technical artist
- Pedro Ribot
- 3D artists (avatars)
- Olga Konycheva, Tristan Siodlak
- 3D artists
- Mélanie Martin, Odran Jobin
- Creatures
- Creatures Bionic / Ace Ruele
- Avatar rigs
- Clovis Gay
- 3D documentation
- Mateo Jobin
- Administration
- Gonzague Bochud
- Production
- Cie Gilles Jobin - Studio44MocapLab (Geneva)
- Co-production
- Pavillon ADC (Geneva)