Narcotics, extreme sex, fasting - many are the routes to discombobulation. For most of us, technology's nearest equivalent is that lost feeling one gets on opening the manual for a new mobile. Choreographer Klaus Obermaier has gone a bit further; he's taken our increasing addiction to losing ourselves in computers and harnessed it to Stravinsky's notorious ballet The Rite of Spring. Using the resources of an Austrian satellite navigation laboratory, he's invented a futuristic experience in which the audience will put on 3-D goggles to watch a dancer, live on stage behind the London Philharmonic Orchestra, disappearing into a virtual world generated electronically by her movements. It sounds half Thorpe Park, half experimental nightmare, and an enticing attraction to the beautifully refurbished Royal Festival Hall. 
Ismene Brown
FIRST POSTED JUNE 22, 2007
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