The Explosion of Live HD Broadcasts
Are you curious about the increased talk and presentations on live HD theater and performance broadcasts? Check out what the top journals and newspapers are saying all over the world:
Theater's Newest Act is HD - The Wall Street Journal (New York, NY)Live Streaming: The Potential In Putting Your Performance Online - The Guardian (UK)You kind of have to be there for Hamlet Live - Freshdaily (Canada)Detroit Symphony Webcast Sets Record For Viewers - Huffington Post (Detroit, MI)Paul McCartney concert stream will test the waters on live Apple TV viewership - ars technica (US)
High Definition Dance "Calling Cards"
Who else in the dance world is integrating high definition camera work into their repotire? Check out this two minute video danced by Guillaume Côté and directred by Ben Shirinian.
According to the LA Times, the film is shot in "high-definition, with a 1,000-frames-per-second Phantom camera, the piece is meant to suggest Côté’s experience of "getting lost" in the dancing and feeling varying tempos in his body." Read the full article for more details.
OntheBoards.tv: Movie Night in Seattle
Mon | Feb 27 | 7:30pm On the Boards will be hosting an intimate screening in our Studio Theater of The Method Gun, a fun and fast-paced performance from Austin’s The Rude Mechs that we filmed at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s TBA Festival in the fall. The Method Gun addresses the ecstasy and excesses of performing, the dangers of public intimacy, and the incompatibility of truth on stage and sanity in real life. Since 1995, Rude Mechs has created a mercurial slate of 23 theatrical productions that represent a genre-defying cocktail of big ideas, cheap laughs, and dizzying spectacle.
The Stranger once wished for the performance to come Seattle, so mark your calendars for the first time the show will be seen here!
Whats happening at OntheBoards.tv? Here's a 2 Year Update.
OntheBoards.tv would like to thank our audiences and users for the continued support and interest in our mission. Over the past two years we have more than doubled in size with plans to continue adding multiple new performance films each season. We have continued to engage and intrigue new audiences in all 50 states as well as over 100 countries in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia. Our subscribers are comprised of avid arts fans, intrigued browsers, students and arts professionals. In addition, we have 14 universities participating in our educational subscription program. Since January 2010, we have launched 20 performance films by 18 different artists. In 2011 alone, we have filmed 7 performances, 6 at On the Boards in Seattle, WA and one in Portland, OR. We are looking forward to entering our third year and continuing to give you the best possible access to the highest quality contemporary performance films.
How do OntheBoards.tv Artist Alumni Feel About the Work Post-Production?
Ever wonder what the OntheBoards.tv artists think about their film post-production? Or how it has allowed them to reach new audiences? What about the idea of filming and preserving art? Check out this interview with OntheBoards.tv Alumni Young Jean Lee, posted on the Walker Arts Center's Performing Arts Blog.
Technology and the Arts on the Discussion Board
Check out how technology and new media has improved the learning and teaching of dance at the Lincoln Center Instute.
"When a dancer leaps, the leap is measured in relation to the space around it. How was this ever going to be conveyed on a screen of any size?..The answer seems to be: imaginative digital artists who love the arts, working with imaginative choreographers willing to lend their bodies to experimentation. This is the crux: technology that does not exploit, but lends its potential to the arts."
2 OntheBoards.tv Artists Recieve $50,000 USA Fellows
Morgan Thorson and Michelle Ellswsorth were both awarded USA Fellowships this year for outstanding dance artistry. To be selected, the artist must have expert artistic skills in artistic education or training (formal or informal), a history of deriving income from those skills, a history of active engagement in creating artwork and presenting it to the public. Read more about how the artists were chosen at the USA Fellows website and see the full list of USA Fellows.
Check out Heaven by Morgan Thorson, filmed in 2010, that integrated live music and vocal work into dance. Heaven is a collaboration between rising choreographer Morgan Thorson and Alan SParhawk and Mimi Parker of the indie band Low.
During the first year of OntheBoards.tv, we invited performance artist Michelle Ellsworth to help set the tone for watching OtB.tv and provide the playfulness and intelligence that we believe is characteristic of our audiences. Check out all the videos she made for us here and look for her upcoming performance Phone Homer which will be available spring 2012.
Alaska at NYC's BAM
If you are in NYC Monday, Dec 2, be sure to check out BAM's screening of Alaska by Diana Szeinblum. This is the second OntheBoards.tv production included in BAM's Performance in HD Series. Find out more about the screening and purchase your tickets!
Performa TV
If you are in NYC, be sure to check out Performa 11, a visual art performance happening now, Nov 1-21, 2011. Showcasing new works by over 100 artists, they are providing online access to the content via Performa TV, an Internet-based video program that provides a live, open, and public platform for the artists and organizers of the Performa Biennials.
Curated programs devised for Performa TV will also be available online and through the Performa Hub as well as shown on screens in highly visible locations in New York City. Performa TV will also serve as the portal for all Performa 11 documentation of the live performances and events. Produced and directed by Pierce Jackson.
Sharing Visual Art Online
Bringing art to viewers through an online platform. Check out how NYC based website 20x200 founded by Jen Beckman is committed to sharing visual art of all prices to online users and read the article by the Entrepreneur.
