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Project Schrödinger
Audience and dancers exchange sensors, making each encounter with the performance singular.
Can theatre act as a live biofeedback protocol rather than illustrate a fixed plot?
A theatre laboratory where collective biometric signals enter the visual field.
About the work
- 22 May 2025 · Kaluga
- Open laboratory at Tsiolkovsky Festival
- With Innovation Ballet Theatre
Inside the work
Act I: Nothing is clear
The audience is initially seated onstage, and eight volunteers approach a table of devices. Headsets and wrist sensors pass from spectators to dancers while the audience voices its interpretations. Two areas—traditional shamanism and techno-shamanism—leave the action open to interpretation. The devices enter the dramaturgy before their purpose is explained.
Act II: Now everything is clear
ODA.dream and the company reveal how the system works. EEG visuals, spoken associations and pulse data become material for studies. The presentation used four EEG channels and four pulse channels. A system failure becomes part of the score, exposing the fragility of the experiment.
A realised laboratory performance
The work was presented with the Innovation Ballet Theatre on 22 May 2025 in Kaluga, at the close of the Tsiolkovsky Festival. It followed meetings and laboratory sessions in 2024; Interference of Realities became the next work in this line. Project Schrödinger is currently outside the repertoire.
Recordings and publications
Presentation recordings, interviews and publications about the work.
Work materials
EEG and pulse data become material for stage interpretation; personal experiences emerge through each person’s account and participation.
Who makes the work
ODA.dream
Artistic and technological system and laboratory facilitation
Innovation Ballet Theatre
Co-staging and performance
Working with the project
Archive work; not currently in repertoire.