THE FUNGI is a 3D dance piece in which dancers parasitize sculptures.

The characteristics of the fungi are used as a thematic theme to configure the place that the fungus-dancers will occupy in the sculpture, and also to define their morphological characteristics and their movement behaviors.

The piece establishes a direct relationship between the languages of sculpture and choreography, dance and the visual arts, putting into debate the notions of body, form, mobility and immobility based on new protocols, codes and paradigms of modeling, movement and images made possible by 3D animation and simulation.

With THE FUNGI I keep asking: how to dance in Web 3.0? How to choreograph in the metaverse? How to reprocess the revolution brought about by the relationship between dance and 3D simulation? As a dance artist, I seek creative answers to these questions by articulating dance and 3D, NFTs, web3 and metaverses, provoking a dialogue between the classic and the contemporary and reflecting on the future of Art and Dance. When I create dances with digital materials, my whole body is involved in this process. In my body there is no distinction between physical performance and digital dance. I believe that this has to do with the future of relationships in the metaverses, with the conditions of existence and with the forms of coexistence mediated by digital technologies. Other bodies, other movements, other dances.

Artist: Diego Mac Duration: 1'18 Music: Chiptuned Rock Music (CC0) MP4 | 1920x1080 Porto Alegre | Brazil