Displace Studio is a Mixed Reality Performance Studio

Co-lead by Digital Dance Artist Kerryn Wise & Creative Technologist Ben Neal

with Emma Hughes, Courtenay Johnson, Dan Frazer, Tina Carter, Victor Simao.

Using cutting edge technologies and the immediacy of live performance, Displace invite you to follow them, question your senses, and discover... somewhere unexpected.

Exploring the intersection of dance, film, physical theatre and digital technology, Displace produce bold, boundary-pushing work that dances between the darkness and the light - reality and fantasy - creating deep, interpersonal, immersive experiences that encourage audiences to step into, behind, and around the edges of illusion.

Works often take the form of intimate, dreamlike journeys through uncertain places rich in symbolism and metaphor in which curious behaviours are encountered.

  • WORKS

  • REPLICA (2025)

  • A Mixed Reality performance featuring a real performer and her digital double.

  • A Digital Commission, funded by The Space. Produced by Nearnow. Based on an Artist Residency at University of Nottingham's Virtual & Immersive Production Studio



  • TABLEAU VIVANT (2023)

  • A standing or seated Virtual Reality commission for LUArts, Loughborough University.

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  • FACADES (2021)

  • A room-scale Virtual Reality experience touring throughout 2021-2022.

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  • DIS_PLACE (2019)

  • A site specific one on one performance held at The People's Hall in Nottingham.

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  • PREVIOUS TALKS / WORKSHOPS

  • -2025

  • 12 Apr - Workshop - "Exploring Mixing Realities" - Lakeside Arts, Nottingham


  • -2024

  • 16 Nov - Talk - "Replica - Dancing with a Digital Double" - Digital Body Festival - Hackney Wick, London

  • 7 Oct - Workshop & Mentoring - IJAD Open Online Theatre Arts/Tech Residency - University of Nottingham

  • 27 Jun - Talk - Immersive Arts and Technologies: Public Space and Collective Experience - University of Nottingham


  • -2023

  • 22 Sept - Featured - Createch23 - University of Westminster, London

  • 16 Sept - Kerryn Wise PHD Practice Exhibition - De Montfort University, Leicester

  • 24 Jun - Workshop - Pro Gati Dance: Digital Lab - Sampad, Birmingham

  • 17 Mar - Talk - Speaking Volumes Symposium - OCAD, Toronto, Canada

  • 3 Mar - Talk & Workshop - Cultural eXchanges Festival - De Montfort University, Leicester

  • 8 Feb - Talk & Workshop - VR Society - Loughborough University

  • 20 Jan - Workshop - STEAMHouse, Birmingham



  • -2022

  • 25 Nov - VR & Performance Playday - Barbican Theatre, Plymouth

  • 28 Oct - Workshop - Studio Wayne McGregor, London

  • 8 Sept - Talk - Extended Senses , University for the Creative Arts & University of Greenwich, London

  • 4 Apr - VR & Performance Playday - Playhouse, Nottingham

  • 9 Mar - Talk - University of Gloucestershire, Gloucester

  • 11 Feb - "Perceiving Facades" Talk - Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol



  • -2021

  • 4 Nov - VR & Performance Playday - Lakeside Arts, Nottingham

  • 2 Nov - Video Presentation - FACETS 2021 Immersive Storytelling Symposium, Lakeside Arts, Nottingham



  • -2020

  • 27 Jan - Talk on Dis_place - Maker Monday, Birmingham

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