Waltz With Leo, Brad Or Beyoncé – Or Their Holograms Anyway

You can waltz with Leo, pirouette to “Swan Lake” or join Beyoncé on the disco floor. Well, your holograms can, at Tokyo’s Madame Tussauds wax museum.

Photo: Eugene Hoshiko/AP

Mizuho Shinden looks at her scanned face at the Hologram Dance Theater at Madame Tussauds in Tokyo.

The Tokyo location of the museums known for their life-sized celebrity figures in wax opened a dancing hologram attraction Thursday.

Visitors can waltz and disco with Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Lady Gaga, Beyoncé and Marilyn Monroe, or pirouette in a “Swan Lake” ballet with Olympics figure skating champion Yuzuru Hanyu.

Mizuho Shinden had a dream-come-true experience with two of her favorite celebrities, Monroe and Lady Gaga.

“It looks as though I’m really there, so that’s a strange feeling. But I thought, wow, it’s like a dream to be able to dance with such amazing people,’“ Shinden said.

It was more unsettling for Tomoaki Ishizuka, who found himself dressed in a ballet leotard alongside Hanyu. “I saw myself dancing with other ballerinas, so that was disgusting – but it was disgusting because it looked so real,” said Ishizuka.

Participants get a 3D face scan, which is transposed onto a hologram dancer for the 90-second presentation.

The attraction is one of the ways the centuries-old museum is exploring of interacting with celebrities in a digital age.

Museum General Manager Toshi Endo said the current roster of three dances and six celebrities will expand by midyear.