In Between Realities

Michel van der Aa brings a new dimension to opera by incorporating VR and digital media. While expanding the boundaries of the genre, he investigates what makes us human.

How does technology transform humanity? Do we need a body to be human? In his multidisciplinary work, composer and director Michel van der Aa explores the big themes of our digitised age and contemplates existential questions in the border area between humans, machines and consciousness. Van der Aa re-energises the world of opera. Whether his VR goggles are on or off, he is always looking towards the future. In Between Realities shows him working on a new music theatre project, crossing the boundaries between remembering and forgetting, reality and unreality, life and death. Together with actors and avatars he forges new paths into the metaverse.

In Between Realities is part of Ammodo Docs, a series of short documentaries about original minds in arts and science.