Live Hybrid is a form of performance where storytelling, liveness and technology are interwoven from the outset, created equally for audiences in the room and online — whether through VR, augmented reality, or other immersive spaces sometimes described as the metaverse. Its defining feature is the artful use of creative tension between audiences, performers and technologies, which heightens engagement and creates a shared sense of presence across spaces.

The body carries the why of our work. The tech helps the why to be seen, and experienced.

OOT is the method and digital instrument IJAD created to realise its vision in an online world. Not a platform you stream on — a live hybrid performance system, combining choreography, dramaturgy and live digital production, where stories exist simultaneously across physical and digital worlds.

Polyphonic experiences — stories that unfold across bodies, cameras, networks and audiences at the same time. Not watched. Inhabited.

Not filming a show and putting it online. Not hybrid as an afterthought. Built for both worlds from the first creative decision.

IJAD doesn’t sit between dance, science and technology as three separate things. It’s a single practice — dance informed by science, enhanced through technology.

A single camera produces documentation. Twelve cameras produce an audience experience.

“It all came across brilliantly online.”

— audience member, watching remote