Digital Dance Lab

The Project’s Origin Since 2008, the integration of digital technology into choreographic creation has been the focal point of the artistic activities of VGCS. The company has earned renowned for its expertise in bringing the dance and digital realms together, both on stage and online. To expand its creative possibilities, VGCS also reflects upon new…

The VGCS communities Since its collaboration with the Centre de recherche en musique, médias et technologie (CIRMMT) in 2008, followed by the exhibition Le corps en question(s), which led to the digital platform bodyinquestions.com created in collaboration with Jérôme Delapierre and Ingenisoft, VGCS has brought together the artistic creations and reflections of some thirty Canadian and…

History The Pépinières Danse et Numérique (PDN) were launched in the fall of 2018 in partnership with the Regroupement Québécois de la Danse and UQAT, and funded by CALQ and Emploi Québec. They were set up to meet the dance community’s critical need to equip itself with digital technology, which is becoming more and more…

Workshops – Dancers  During these five-day workshops, artists were able to develop new performance skills by probing the technological and choreographic mysteries of Van Grimde Corps Secrets. They discovered the company’s exclusive techniques and gestural territories, and got the chance to play with the avant-garde interactive devices of Eve 2050: The Installation. Using tracking technologies…

Van Grimde Corps Secrets is launching a residency program that offers artists the opportunity to explore, in the context of their own practice, the interactions between bodies and digital technologies. Artists-in-residence will be able to choose the technological devices they would like to experiment with, in relation to their artistic objectives. The goal is to…