Inspired by Walt Disney’s Fantasia, “La Péri” is a semi-interactive experience based on classical music and a ballet performance captured with mocap and exclusively made for roomscale VR. It features a lot of interaction based on the controllers to be able to play and feel presence with the character. HTC VIVE headset allowed us to create an experience where anyone will be able to feel true presence on the Stage... We created a new relationship to dance and ballet performance. The viewer is no longer a distant observer, but lives the choreography from the inside and can appreciate a dancer's performance as never before.
In this experience , choreography, visual processing, music and story-line will merge into one, producing an extraordinary audio-visual experience.
On the stage, you play the role of Iskender, a prince seeking the "flower of immortality". This precious artifact is guarded by la Péri, an ancient spirit. As you gradually fit into your role and try to take possession of the flower, the spirit appears. Alternately frightened and mischievous, it evolves in different living forms that increase in complexity until it sketches a graceful, feminine silhouette….