As classical music performances, complete with visuals, go online on Second Life and elsewhere, there are some technical hurdles to leap. “‘It’s an odd medium,’ said John Shibley, the director of organizational learning at the consulting company EmcArts, which helped manage (chamber ensemble) Red’s performance. ‘It’s sort of like listening to the radio and watching a puppet show, and the puppet show is not synched to the radio.'”
Tag: 09.18.07
Graham’s Dancers Trade Tales Of The Master
“Martha Graham, a tiny, raven-haired woman with the passion and fury of several armies, put modern dance on the map. And like any choreographer, she didn’t do it alone.” On Saturday at the Joyce Theater, some of those collaborators — her dancers — reunited to trade tales about working with her in a storytelling program called “From the Horse’s Mouth.”
France’s Shrine To Its Architecture Reopens, Redone
“On Monday President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, who is increasingly faulted, even by his own government, for usurping the responsibilities of his top ministers, stepped into the role of culture minister. At a low-key ceremony he inaugurated La Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, (the City of Architecture and Heritage) in Paris, which reopened after a $114 million, decade-long makeover. … With three galleries and 86,000 square feet of space, the City of Architecture and Heritage bills itself as the largest architectural museum in the world.”