Human Movement with Wires Vimeo (via Vimeo)
This is a follow up the the first “Human Movement” video a few months ago. Both brilliant pieces of work.
Watch it on Vimeo to get it in HD.
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New York City Ballet on Vimeo
Welcome to the New World, Old World.
Of course everything looks better on Vimeo, it supports HD, the site is cleaner and strangely enough for NYCB, you can embed these videos. “When we were kids” is particularly good.
Is Dance Ephemeral? -- The Kinetic Interface
Doug: “Dance is ephemeral by circumstance, not by definition.”
That’s the shortest post I’ve ever seen Doug write. He deserves an award.
I have to say that I completely disagree, that the concept of dance is very ephemeral (meaning “lasting for a very short time”). It is consumed at the very moment of its creation. Only an impression of it is ever left behind…
Pertaining to our discussion on Cedar Lake’s The Copier, audience interaction/participation, Rocketboom had an interview with Charlie Todd, the guy behind Improveverywhere. You might remember them from the “everyone frozen in Grand Central Station” a few months ago.
Charlie: “People are interested in being an active participant in their own entertainment. So rather than just being satisfied with just watching television or going to a movie on a Saturday afternoon or even going to a baseball game or whatever people what to be a part of something… they want to help create something cool.”
I think what he makes clear is that ‘participation’ is a sliding scale: Improveverywhere > dance installation > baseball game > theatre performance > movie > watching TV at home > sleep. It’s not a question whether your performance is interactive or not, it’s more of a gradient.
Like clockwork; episode 2. 50 more to go guys… This one is more informational than last week. Ana’s voiceover was disjointed so that I didn’t really understand what she was referring to. Jubal seems a little more focused on one thought.
Do the Whirlwind by Marcio Simnch. Fun design too, where you can drag the photos around the page to view them.
The first episode of project52. Looks like the idea is to shoot 52 one minute documentaries, one each week. That’s… ambitious. We’ll see if they can pull it off. The first one is pretty interesting.
But this is a good case in point of the video sharing problem of dance on the internet. The project is offered:
1. As a video podcast. (Cool link that opens iTunes)
2. On YouTube. (ugh)
3. On Vimeo. (in HD!)
4. On the website. (Technically, this is just an embedded video from Vimeo, but still…)
That’s a lot of options and a lot of bandwidth being used up sending this video every week two three different places. It’s nice to have options though.
How much is a 'priceless' cocktail with Rasta Thomas worth?
About $110. Remember about a month ago we were asking how much some of these ‘priceless’ auction items a Jacob’s Pillow were worth? Well, you can find out now… Looks like an evening with Wendy Whelan and David Michalek which was somehow calculated to be worth $5,000 is only worth about $1,600 on the open market.
I know that these thing need a price set on them for tax write-off reasons, but calling anything in an auction “priceless” is just pretentious. As though your mortal money is not worthy of it. Please.
Flix.DancerUniverse.com - Dance Videos on Dancer Universe.com
So it looks like Dancer Magazine is opening its own web video site. From the post: “DancerUniverse.Com is proud to announce the launch of our very own, super magnificent dance video site.”
“Super Magnificent?” Really guys? Dance videos on the web is such a good thing but it’s really only useful when the site has a critical mass of users. Do we need another specialty site for dance videos? Why do we even need one? Give me 1 good reason to put my video on Flix.danceruniverse.com rather than Vimeo. One.
More long exposure light videos. I think they are starting to grow on me…
Vail Dance Festival video playlist
Vail has a whole collection of rehearsal and performance videos from the festival. Its a nice way to get a feel for what is going on if you can’t be there.
Vail has a whole collection of rehearsal and performance videos from the festival. Its a nice way to get a feel for what is going on if you can’t be there.