Dancescapes – Immersive VR dance experience
Side event of the 14th IZIS Festival
Monday, 9 November 2026, 5.30 pm and 6.30 pm · Small hall, Libertas, Koper
Duration: 30 minutes · Free entry, registration required
From the future we travel back to the past, to find stories hidden in abandoned places.
Dancescapes is an immersive dance experience. Wearing a virtual reality headset, you set off on a dance journey through forgotten places in Velenje, Trbovlje, Sarajevo, Belgrade and the Istrian village of Svetvinčenat. An abandoned chimney, a deserted bathhouse, a mine shaft and a park were once important to their communities. Through dance and music, they come back to life.
Directed by Enya Belak, the 360-degree film brings together five choreographers and nineteen performers in one continuous journey. Your gaze can take in the whole space at once, receiving the stories of the past and reimagining the future through dance.
“The film is a retreat into the world of dance – an ode to quiet spaces and forgotten presence, where the body reshapes silent voids.” – Enya Belak
Each session has 18 places, so registration is required. Choose your session when you register.
Direction: Enya Belak · Choreography: Nik Rajšek, Aleksandar Saša Ilić, Ognjen Vučinić, Branko Mitrović, Maša Kolar · Camera and post-production: Igor Crnković · Music: Marjan Crnković · Sound design: Ivo Vičić · Artistic concept: Mojca Majcen, Petra Valentić, Aleksandar Ilić, Nik Rajšek
Dancescapes is part of the Danube Dance Alliance project, co-funded by the European Union.
The IZIS XIV Festival is supported by: PiNA, HEKA, Stran22, Mestna občina Koper, Zavod za mladino, kulturo in turizem Koper, Ministrstvo za kulturo, JSKD, Obalne Galerije Piran, Skupnost Italijanov “Santorio Santorio” Koper – Comunità degli Italiani “Santorio Santorio” di Capodistria, Univerza na Primorskem (Pedagoška fakulteta – Vizualne umetnosti in oblikovanje), Grad Zagreb and Prohelvetia.