Event
eMBody—everybody in motion | Tai Kwun
Time
10:00 AM– 1:00 PM (Closed on Mondays)
Venue
1/F, JC Contemporary, Tai Kwun
Free Admission
EVENTS
Produced by Hong Kong Baptist University, eMBody—everybody in motion is an interactive 360-degree immersive 3D cinema in which visitors engage with virtual dancers and responsive digital environments through movement, sound and image. Based on motion capture recordings from Wayne McGregor: On The Other Earth, the installation transforms audiences from passive observers into active participants within a mixed-reality performance space.
Using real-time body tracking and generative media, eMBody creates evolving choreographies between human bodies, data and machine intelligence. Participants influence projected dancers, environmental visuals and spatial sound through gesture and collective movement, producing a shared sensorial experience that changes with every interaction. The work explores how immersive environments and embodied interaction reshape relationships between performers, audiences and public space.
eMBody combines ultra-high-resolution visualisation, motion capture, generative graphics and multi-user spatial tracking to create an adaptive environment responsive to audience behaviour. Rather than presenting dance as a fixed spectacle, the installation proposes a co-creative platform where visitors become collaborators in the production of movement, atmosphere and meaning, reflecting on how immersive technologies can foster agency, empathy and shared presence in contemporary performance culture.
Concurrently held at Tai Kwun, Wayne McGregor: On The Other Earth, the world’s first post-cinematic choreographic installation, refracts, evolves and reimagines dance performance in a startlingly original new form of experience. Co-produced by Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Ballet, and Studio Wayne McGregor, London, the 57-minute programme is set within Jeffrey Shaw and Sarah Kenderdine’s radically immersive, panoramic, 360-degree stereoscopic, 12K LED, 26-million-pixel nVis screen, where 3D imagery is experienced within an enveloping, large-scale cylindrical architecture of eight metres wide and four metres tall.
Hong Kong Baptist University and Tai Kwun present eMBody—everybody in motion.
Direction and Interactive Visualization by
Jeffrey Shaw, Sarah Kenderdine
Motion Capture Choreography by
Wayne McGregor
Company Wayne McGregor
Design and Application Software by
Jeff Zhang
Sound Compositions by
Anandi Bhattacharya, Debashish Bhattacharya, Eugene Birman, Paul Doornbusch, Roberto Alonso Trillo, Davor Vincze
Production and nVis Technologies by
Hong Kong Baptist University Visualization Research Centre
Supported by
Innovation and Technology Commission, The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China
Disclaimer:
Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material/event (or by members of the project team) do not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Innovation and Technology Commission or the Innovation and Technology Fund Research Projects Assessment Panel.