“With the current explosive rate of technology we will all find ourselves, at some point in time, in the place of the record labels in the face of illegal downloading. They were just one of the canaries in the coal mine.”
Tag: 02.04.14
Choreographing the Opening Ceremony in Sochi
Veteran Hollywood choreographer Daniel Ezralow talks about how he handled his highest-profile show ever – and its loaded theme, nothing less than Russian history through the 20th century.
‘Emotionally, It’s a Demolition Job’: What It’s Like to Play Miss Julie
Louise Brealey (Sherlock): “This kitchen is a very dangerous place. What happens between John and Julie is horrifying – something putatively domestic suddenly feels like Greek tragedy.”
Dead Sea Scrolls 2.0: A Hugely Expanded Digital Archive
“The upgraded website includes 10,000 new multispectral images, extra manuscript descriptions, content translated into Russian and German in addition to the current languages, a faster search engine, and easy access from the site to the Facebook page and to Twitter.”
Why Isn’t Hollywood Engaging The Big Issues Of Our Time?
So why, besides the usual Hollywood shallowness, are we not getting films that match the frustration many Americans still feel, or that capture the lives they’re living? And will we ever get them?
The Technology That Really Fixes Concert Hall Acoustics
“Does it represent the new paradigm of concert hall sonics, or does it spell the death of “live” acoustic sound as we have grown to know it?”
The Structures Of Stuff? Turns Out It’s Similar To The Structures Of Music
“Essentially, music is just one example of a hierarchical system, where patterns are nested within larger patterns – similar to the way characters form words, which form sentences, then chapters and eventually a novel.”
Will Live Theatre Cinemacasts Help Local Playhouses or Displace Them?
One producer wonders if there’s a risk that cash-strapped regional arts centres might simply decide that the National Theatre’s broadcasts would constitute its (much cheaper) theatre programme.
How Lighting Design and Technology Transform Dance
“Lighting designers used to be faceless backstage figures. Now the hottest choreographers can’t work without them. Judith Mackrell meets the new wave of trailblazers.”
Jean Babilée, 90, Postwar Ballet’s Great Rebel
“[He] gained instant stardom in French ballet as the violent chair-throwing youth in Roland Petit’s Le Jeune Homme et la Mort in 1946 … His extraordinary technique, soaring leaps and masculine power were matched by a pantherlike pounce and a jarring poetic presence.”