Clemence Debaig is a dance artist, interaction designer, creative technologist and director of Unwired Dance Theatre.

She creates work at the intersection of dance and technology - for remote audiences, galleries, the stage, and more unconventional sites. Using telepresence, wearables, mocap and VR, her work explores notions of control, empathy and intimacy.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, she focuses on bringing remote performers and audiences together by exploring new forms of live interactive work online. In May 2020, she creates STRINGS, an interactive and live-streamed performance where the audience can control her movements via a web application.

In February 2021, for Open Online Theatre (IJAD Dance), she developed her latest work, Remote Intimacy - a dance performance happening live between London and New York, mixing telepresence and networked wearables.

She is also a lecturer and researcher at Goldsmiths University, currently exploring how motion capture technology can enable virtual collaboration between dancers in remote locations - involving Mavin Khoo (Akram Khan Dance Company) and Alexander Whitley.

Besides her dance experience, Clemence has an MSc in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design (2009) from the University of Technology of Compiègne (France), and an MA in Computational Arts (2020) from Goldsmiths University (UK).

Actor, psychologist and educator. Simon trained in the MA Musical Theatre degree & the LRAM program in teaching voice at the Royal Academy of Music (London), holds a Licentiate in Musical Theatre from Trinity College London, trained with the Actors Centre Australia, and completed Psychology degrees at Macquarie University in Sydney. He has performed in London’s West End, New York City & throughout Australia in musicals, plays, opera and extensively in cabaret. He has also directed shows for the Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne Fringe Festivals. Simon is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, a Member of the Australian Psychological Society, a Chartered Psychologist & Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, a member of the British Voice Association, the Australian National Association of Teachers of Singing, the Manhattan Association of Cabarets, of the Music Theatre Educators Alliance (MTEA), the Australian Society for Performing Arts Healthcare, and a proud Equity UK & MEAA Equity Australia member. Simon is also a member of the MEAA Equity Wellness Committee.

He has worked in the NSW Government Health Department, as a consultant psychologist for the Australian Ballet & works in private practice. He presented at the MTEA Conference in NYC, the APS conference, and the Estill Voice Symposium in London. Simon teaches acting, voice, and mental health on tertiary musical theatre and dance programs in Australia, regularly runs workshops for schools, educational institutions, health professionals, teachers, performers, NGOs and creative arts bodies. www.simonward.info

Specialist in Sensography and digital performance, sensographer Founder of IJAD and Open Online Theatre and MeWe-WeMe, the Matrix: Roundtable discussions that happen bimonthly:

Artistic Director embraces digital technologies in dance, creating performances presented on three different yet interlinked stages (physical, digital-stream and digital-social) to create meaningful worldwide conversations, before, during and after a performance.

From working with 45 performers in Taiwan to engaging audiences across four continents with its live-stream, IJAD embraces unconventional spaces and new formats. 

"Mourad has since gone on to be one of the most intriguing figures on the British dance scene, challenges the very nature of what you think a dance performance will look like." - Keith Watson, Metro

"Her [Mourad’s] multimedia ideas are all encompassing, engaging all our senses and demanding 100 per cent of our attention at all times." - Dance Expression Magazine.

Naomi Smyth is a PhD researcher at Bath Spa University, focusing on the creative and technological responses of theatre artists to COVID restrictions with narrative experiences that use audience embodiment and immersive technologies.

Naomi has a practice background as a designer and creator of immersive theatre and interactive installations, working with Glastonbury and Boomtown Festivals. In 2020 Naomi began to explore immersive theatre in VR through the 5th Wall Forum and collaboration with Lost Horizon, a VR events company now launching a hybrid live/VR performance space.  

Play and vulnerability is central to Naomi’s practice and research.