Arrive on the island as a soul, weightless and unformed. Here, shadow figures wait to dance with you — and each dance is a door.
Step through, and you become something else entirely: an insect testing its wings, a creature moving through deep water, a microorganism pulsing with the rhythm of life itself, a robot learning grace, an alien body discovering gravity for the first time. Every form has its own choreography, captured through motion capture and set to a score built for movement — electronic music that pulls you into the beat until dancing and being become the same act.
This is not a game about winning. It’s a game about remembering.
Every form of life on this island, and perhaps everywhere, is the same soul wearing different skins. Complete each dance, and you earn the right to become the next life. The cycle continues, transformation folding into transformation, until the boundary between you and everything else starts to dissolve.
Dance of Drauganna sits at the meeting point of rhythm game, immersive theatre, and meditation — a piece that asks players to feel their way into other bodies, other rhythms, other ways of being alive.
Selected Credits
Directed by
Nicole C. Strasser
Co-Written by
Simon Thummet
A production of
Reynard Films, Yaga Studio
Produced by
Viviana Hochstätter, Katharina Weser
Executive Producer
Katharina Weser
Voice over by
Eliza Chadwick (Shaman)
Choreographies
Marten Baum, Julia Fidel, Chris Jäger
Lead Developer
Julio Quiroz Astorga
Unity Developer
Paulo Ramos
UX Design
Priscilla Larcher
Art Director
Piers Goffart
Concept Artist
Olivier Menanteau
3D Animation Supervision
Hsiao-Pei Kao
3D Animation
Yuliia Baranovska, Yaroslav Bebeshko, Hsiao-Pei Kao
Music Composition
Willi Sieger, Danae Le Guennic
Music by
Max Cooper, Dasha Rush, Modeselektor, Bella Boo, Fatima Yamaha, Romare, Jiin, Flying Lotus, Tiefe Wasser Berlin
