Carry Me Home: the first cross-reality live circus returns

This December, we journeyed back into the mind of world-renowned acrobat and singer-songwriter, Didier Stowe. Incorporating circus acts and live music performance while exploring the boundaries of imagination through technology, The 7 Fingers’ latest Carry Me Home performance offered a fantastical world of exceptional technological complexity.

Carry Me Home, told across the weekend of 15th to 17th December 2022, was not only performed live by creative collective The 7 Fingers, but was made available online via streaming video, with an additional virtual reality multiplayer element to be added in the new year. Animatrik was proud to exclusively host the show in-person at our studios in Burnaby, Vancouver.

Carry Me Home is a groundbreaking series and the first to use a 4-Audience performance model, exploring what a circus in the metaverse can look like. The show itself was inspired by Didier Stowe’s life experiences, virtually transporting the audience to a set resembling the inner workings of his mind. The dreamy imagery was brought to life through motion tracking technology to provide two shows in one. The first, a live production for an in-person audience, and the second was an online experience via live stream.

Images courtesy of Scopo Photography

The 7 Fingers team, together with Animatrik Film Studios’ motion capture technology, crafted an experience that could transport audiences through one person’s life via different ‘realities’. Viewers from anywhere in the world were witness to something that once could only be captured live, but with Carry Me Home was amplified entirely by technology.