Danse
Macabre

A VR experience co-directed byMerel Langstraat and Erika Laverman

 

Danse Macabre is a virtual reality experience inspired by 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane.

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Built in Unreal Engine and Blender, a raw and unsettling meditation on obsession, identity, and the fragile boundary between beauty and destruction.

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At the center of the experience is a ballerina who lives to dance, so much so that she is willing to die for it. As the viewer, you are placed in an intimate, unflinching position: not just to observe her unraveling, but to be complicit in it.

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This project explores the tension between passion and self-destruction, control and surrender. Designed for VR, it uses spatial immersion and atmospheric intensity to challenge how we emotionally engage with digital bodies and performance.

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Stylistically minimalist yet emotionally heavy, Danse Macabre invites you to witness what it means to fall apart, beautifully.