A performance video has been released by the popular dance team Avant Gardie, expressing the worldview of Tron: Ares (directed by Joachim Rønning, to be released simultaneously in Japan and the US on October 10th), the latest installment in the American film series Tron, the first in 15 years.
"Tron: Ares" is the latest installment of the American film "Tron" (1982), known as the world's first feature-length film to fully utilize CG (computer graphics). Ares (Jared Leto), the strongest humanoid AI soldier in the real world, is developed. He is the ultimate soldier, endowed with overwhelming strength and superior intelligence, but he can only "survive" in the real world for 29 minutes. In their quest for "eternity," the AI soldiers go out of control, and the digital world begins to encroach on the real world. Then, something strange happens to Ares, who learns about "humans" in the real world. Will Ares really become the savior of humanity? This is the story.
Avant Gardie is a 17-member dance team formed in 2022. They gained worldwide popularity on social media as a "mysterious group of girls in bob haircuts and uniforms." In June 2023, they became the first Japanese group to reach the finals of the US audition program "America's Got Talent" in 10 years, and are also known for performing at the opening ceremony of the Osaka Expo in April of this year.
In the video, Avant-Garde appears as "Tron Gardie," an AI dancer who invades the real world from the digital world. Wearing an LED suit inspired by the film, she performs a perfectly synchronized dance to the music of Nine Inch Nails, while red laser lights fly around, expressing the world of Tron.
In an interview after the shoot, she commented, "I think the light costumes and laser light effects, which I wore for the first time, brought out a new side of Avant-Garde. We expressed the AI materializing through mechanical AI-like movements and supple human-like movements." The group's impressive head-shaking choreography revealed a highlight, saying, "(This time) we're machines, so I think machines move their necks and bodies together, and we all kept that in mind and practiced together to synchronize for the first time."
