Gabrielle Thomas, Ed Davis / AtamiraNew Zealand / VR / 15 minTOMO VR is the first foray of Atamira Dance Company into the world of Virtual Reality where individual headsets take each audience member into an innovative digital experience of the full-length stage work that first premiered in 2019 at Tempo Dance Festival.
This VR film captures the dream space with its haunting tale of life and death.
Viewers will find themselves in a cavern of endless time, a world within a world, watching two travelling wairua (the bodiless self) and the generations of ancestors before them.
Their mother holds the power of creation within her. She carries them in her womb and is the gateway to the world of light. She is a daughter, a sister and a mother in tapu (sacred).
One traveller departs to the world of the living, the other transcends to the embracing arms of Hine Nui Te Pō, the goddess of death.
Awards/Festivals: Matriarchs Uprising Festival Vancouver
- Choreographed and edited by Gabrielle Thomas
- Filmed and edited by Ed Davis
- Performed by: Sean MacDonald, Bianca Hyslop, Abbie Rogers, Cory-Toalei Roycroft, Madison Tumataroa
- Music Composition: Peter Hobbs
- Production Design: Vanda Karolczak
