About the project
Testing a ballet historical 3D classroom as an educational, collaborative and promotional space.
In 2019, the first ballet historical virtual space was completed. In the project related to the research of the life of the first Hungarian prima ballerina, the space was created by visualizing the first building of the Hungarian National Theater, which no longer exists.
In 2020, the converted the visualization in the 3D presentation room developed by the researchers of Univerity of Győr: in MaxWhere. This gives us an easy-to-use desktop virtual reality space that can be implemented in education in a user-friendly way.
In a project from autumn 2021 to spring 2023, with the support of the Visegrad Fund, we will test the ballet historical MaxWhere presentation room in university and college education, as a space for presentation and collaboration. We also provide ballet history materials, which we offer as ready-made MaxWhere presentations.
Consortium partners involved in the testing and curriculum development project
University of Debrecen Faculty of Informatics
Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz Institute of Mathematics
University of Debrecen Faculty of Humanities
Masaryk University Faculty of Education
Trnava University in Trnava Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Department of Informatics
The Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice Department of Dance
Upcoming events
Short reports
2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON APPLICATIONS OF VIRTUAL REALITY IN PERFORMING ARTS WAS HELD
The International Conference on Applications of Virtual Reality in Performing Arts took place on 23-24 May 2024, hosted by the Faculty of Informatics of the University of Debrecen. After the implementation of a 3D curriculum for the history of theatre and ballet, Arts and Research Ltd. started a project for the development of a 3D curriculum for the didactics of ballet and folk dance education in cooperation with the HAA Research Institute of Art Theory and Methodology, the Faculty of Informatics of the University of Debrecen, the Centre for Cognitive Infocommunications of the Corvinus University, the Europaballett St. Pölten and the Csillagszemű Dance Ensemble. In this context, the main topics of the conference were Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and, more generally, the artistic use of XR, the use of Motion Capture and Motion Analysis and, in particular, their applicability in the didactic development of dance education and in kinetic cultural heritage research. The conference was also the launch of the study booklet 'Benefits of Virtual Reality in Performing Arts - Testing on a Dance History Teaching Case' of the ongoing BalletWhere programme.
MOTION CAPTURING FOLK DANCES IN THE CYENS STUDIO
As part of the HAA Research Institute of Art Theory and Methodology's collaborative pilot project 'Benefits of Virtual Reality in Performing Arts - Testing on a Folk Dance Teaching Case', the Institute's team recorded six Hungarian folk dances in the motion capture studio of the CYENS Centre of Excellence in Nicosia, led by Professor Andreas Aristidou. The dances were the Kalotaszeg 'sűrű and 'ritka legényes' dances from the 1980 and 1984 collections of choreographer, pedagogue and ethnographic collector Sándor Timár. (The musical accompaniment was recorded in 1969).
The members of the Folk Dance Motion Capture LAB team were Andreas Aristidou, Senior Research Fellow at CYENS, Anna Mária Bólya, Senior Research Fellow at HAA RIATM, project leader, Mihály Timár, one of the leaders of the Csillagszemű Dance Ensemble, leader of the Timár Ensemble, curator of the Timár Archive, and Gergely Timár, assistant to the Timár Ensemble, folk dance teacher.
The post-production work will create moving 3D dance figures, which will be tested in 2024 together with the moving figures from the ballet exercises recorded here last year. The aim of the pilot project is to explore the didactic potential of 3D teaching assistants in dance education.
1ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ONAPPLICATIONS OF VIRTUAL REALITY IN PERFORMING ARTS WAS HELD
In a consortium led by Arts and Research Ltd, the Faculty of Humanities, University of Debrecen, Hungary, the Faculty of Computer Science, University of Debrecen, Hungary, the Institute of Mathematics, Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Republic of Poland, the Faculty of Music, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia, have organised the 1st International Conference on Applications of Virtual Reality in Performing Arts, 18-20 August 2022, at the Metropol Lake Resort, Ohrid, Republic of North Macedonia.
The conference series reflects the rapidly changing output requirements in higher education.
In the academic year 2022/2023, the BalletWhere consortium implemented and tested the theatre and ballet history space of the MaxWhere system in the theoretical and practical dance education.
The theme of the international conference is the implementation of all forms of virtual reality, in particular the MaxWhere system, in performing arts education, as well as usability in higher education in general. This first conference focused on dance as a performing art.
BALLETWHERE AT GAUDEAMUS EXPO
The Gaudeamus Exhibition is being held annually in four cities in the heart of Europe, providing a meeting place for students from Czech and Slovak Republic and educators from around the world. The aim of the exhibition is to create an efficient and cost-effective platform for international student recruitment.
The MaxWhere 3D classroom visualization of the first Hungarian National Theatre building was presented here. Visitors, students, prospective students, teachers and other participants of the expo had the opportunity to try out the easy use of the 3D classroom.
MaxWhere is an operational system providing 3D classroom developed in Hungary. Using this tool learning and memory performance are proven to be more effective with information placed in 3D instead of the many pages opened in standard 2D.
OPERATIONAL MEETING
We held the first operational meeting of the BalletWhere implementation project, where we planned the preparation and testing of study materials and 3D presentations in university and college education.
