Le Bal de Paris de Blanca Li has been selected in competition for the Venice VR Expanded section of the 78th Venice International Film Festival by La Biennale di Venezia.

Le Bal de Paris de Blanca Li takes off for Venice! From September 1st, Le Bal de Paris de Blanca Li takes you on a journey from Venice, during the 78th Venice International Film Festival. We are indeed very proud & happy to announce that Le Bal de Paris de Blanca Li – directed and choregraphed by Blanca Li, produced by Compagnie Blanca Li, co-produced by BackLight and in exclusive partnership with CHANEL – has been selected in competition for the 78th Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica in the Venice VR expanded category: the selection of immersive works of La Mostra. At stake is the “Best VR Experience” award, which will be given to the best virtual reality experience among a prestigious selection of 23 projects in competition.

The live & immersive show which, in its original version, invites up to 10 participants to party at the biggest ball in Paris and to dance for 35 minutes with 2 live dancers on 90m² will offer an appetizer for the visitors of the Venice Biennale… and on the 14 other satellite sites of the event (see the list below). Indeed, the participants will be able, alone via a 100% online version, to immerse themselves in the festive, colorful and artistic universe of the experience via a solo version specially made for the Venice Festival on Viveport. The interactions will be less elaborate and participants will not have full body avatars, of course, but the music and dance merge with virtual reality to offer a show that will make you want, we hope, to test its full version.

Moreover, Blanca Li will present a complete version at the Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello, Campo Santo Stefano, in Venice, an experience available on reservation, from September 1st to September 9th 2021 /If you are in Venice, do not miss the opportunity to live this unique experience! /If you are able to come to the Venice Conservatory and would like to book a session, please let us know your availability, our performance times are from 10am to 6:30pm Monday to Saturday, and we will offer you an invitation for two people as long as slots are available.

You can also buy paid tickets and come in a larger group for a unique moment of celebration and pleasure, on the following link: https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/166519196399 /

We look forward to hearing from you! List of satellite sites where to test the immersive works of the Festival : Centre PHI, Montréal, Canada Sandman Studios – Sandbox Immersive Festival, Beijing, China MC2: Grenoble, Grenoble, France Centquatre-Paris, Paris, France Invr.Space, Berlin, Germany MEET Digital Culture Center | Fondazione Cariplo, Milan, Italy Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini – Laboratorio Aperto di Modena, Modena, Italy Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Turin, Italy M9 – Museum of the 20th Century, Venice Mestre, Italy Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands Less Media Group – Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), Moscow, Russia Espronceda – Institute of Art & Culture, Barcelona, Spain Euromersive Turkey – IKSV Salon & Kolektif House (Maslak), Istanbul, Turkey Portland Art Museum & Northwest Film Center – Portland Art Museum, Portland, USA

The complete and original live version will also be presented at Chaillot, Théâtre national de la danse, in Paris, from October 7th to October 16th 2021, with 12 dancers and 50 participants per session.To follow our venetian adventure, follow us on social networks, and if you have the opportunity to test our experience, feel free to mention us and add the hashtags #LeBalDeParisVR or #LeBalDeParisDeBlancaLi.