June 27, 2008
By Doug Fox in The Kinetic Interface
I won't be blogging over the coming week. I'll be back on Monday, July 7th and blogging about many topics including the Melt dance and movement classes that I'll be taking at Movement Research. Enjoy the July 4th holiday and imagine what this holiday might feel like next year if it is ushered in by a President Obama!...
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By Anna Brady Nuse in Move The Frame
I'm about to start a twelve day cross-country road trip, driving from West to East with one of my best friends who's moving back to Vermont. We'll be stopping at a bunch of national parks along the way including Crater Lake (OR), Glacier (MT), Yellowstone & the Grand Tetons (WY), and the Blackhills & the Badlands (SD). It's gonna be great, but I won't be able to post to Move the Frame for a while. There are lots of videodance activities happening around the world this summer, so I thought I'd leave you with a few things to keep you busy while I'm MIA....
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June 26, 2008
By Doug Fox in The Kinetic Interface
Last Friday I wrote "A Grassroots Internet Strategy Needed for the Performing Arts." Today, I would like to propose specific approaches that the performing arts community can pursue to implement such a strategy. The overall goal of the recommendations I've included in my post is to get people interested in, excited about, supportive of, financially vested in and participants in any and all aspects of the performing arts....
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June 25, 2008
By Doug Fox in The Kinetic Interface
After a hiatus of four months, I'm back to "real" dance. That's about the most unfair characterization of different types of dance I could possibly come up with. Everybody has their own idea of what's "real" and not real for them in terms of their dance preferences. In this post, I write about the Tango-X creative workshops and describe an enjoyable class I took this past Saturday with Jennifer Monson at Movement Research here in Manhattan....
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June 24, 2008
By Doug Fox in The Kinetic Interface
The Metropolitan Opera sold out performances of Philip Glass' Satyagraha this spring despite the fact that the libretto is in Sanskrit and season ticket subscribers opted-out of this obscure opera. They ended-up selling a large number of individual tickets by creating a series of marketing initiatives "designed to attract specialized audiences. New-age magazines, yoga groups, anti-apartheid organizations, India groups, South African organizations, et al." These audiences, it was determined correctly, would be attracted to the theme of non-violent resistance and the life of Mohandas Gandhi. These ticket buyers were definitely not traditional opera fans....
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By Anna Brady Nuse in Move The Frame
Latika Young of the Dance Films Association wrote a great article about Kriota Willberg's last program for Kinetic Cinema in DFA's member ezine....
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June 23, 2008
By Doug Fox in The Kinetic Interface
I've been participating in a number of active blogging conversations on other blogs and here on The Kinetic Interface. Many of these posts deal with the recent National Performing Arts Convention (NPAC) and its Program Notes blog. Other topics include new approaches to dance writing, strategies for marketing dance online, and how to convert dance audiences into cheering fans. I'm sure the other bloggers as well as myself would appreciate your contributions to these on-going conversations....
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June 20, 2008
By Doug Fox in The Kinetic Interface
I would like to propose the creation of a grassroots Internet campaign to promote, strengthen and expand the performing arts in the United States. This bottom-up strategy would embrace the large-scale, distributed nature of the online world to reach, engage and energize audiences, artists (professional and amateur), teachers, children and arts supporters. Next week I'll expand on the ideas in this post by offering specific strategy recommendations for how such a grassroots initiative can be implemented....
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June 19, 2008
By Doug Fox in The Kinetic Interface
Dance critics write reviews for the Internet in the same manner as they write for print publications. This similarity of approach is understandable given the relative newness of the online medium. But given the ever-improving quality and greater availability of online dance videos, I think it is now a good time for dance critics and writers to consider new, alternative approaches to writing about dance for an Internet audience. In this post, I include eleven dance videos to highlight different approaches to "writing with video."...
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June 18, 2008
By Doug Fox in The Kinetic Interface
Today's post is an update to my video background page, "Movement Is at the Heart of Scientific and Technological Change." You'll find eight videos that demonstrate how gesture, movement and the body are being coupled with new technologies and interfaces for manipulating, viewing and controlling art and objects....
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June 17, 2008
By Anna Brady Nuse in Move The Frame
I just made a word image of my About page for Move the Frame on Wordle. Check it out and make your own!...
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By Anna Brady Nuse in Move The Frame
Two renown experimental filmmakers, Kenneth Anger and Amy Greenfield, are being featured at Anthology Film Archives in New York this weekend. The event, called "Cinema Dance Eros" will will be comprised of two programs of shorts that examine the erotic and sensual movement themes in both filmmakers' work....
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By Doug Fox in The Kinetic Interface
In today's post, I would like to explain and demonstrate how the Internet strategy of the National Performing Arts Convention, which just wrapped-up in Denver, Colorado, failed to embrace one of the most important elements of online communications: the transmission, evolution and sharing of ideas - in Internet parlance, this is called a "meme." To put it another way, NPAC held a conference in a brick-and-mortar setting to create an agenda for the 21st Century, but they didn't understand that 21st Century technology (the Internet, blogging, social networks) could be used to propagate and build upon their initial ideas and agenda. And they didn't reach out to the hundreds of passionate performing arts bloggers who would have been delighted to brainstorm about, discuss and share the ideas generated during the conference's townhall meetings....
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June 16, 2008
By Doug Fox in The Kinetic Interface
I'm heading back this morning to NYC after a couple fun and informative days here in Washington DC at the Dance Critics Association Annual Conference....
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June 13, 2008
By Doug Fox in The Kinetic Interface
I'm heading down to Washington, DC this morning for the annual conference of the Dance Critics Association. I'm speaking on a panel Sunday afternoon, "New Media and Dance: Opportunities and Obstacles."...
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June 12, 2008
By Doug Fox in The Kinetic Interface
I've added the following sixteen dance blogs to my blogroll in the right-hand column of Great Dance home page and in the Dance News blog. Do you know of others I should add? Please let me know....
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By Doug Fox in The Kinetic Interface
If I were a choreographer, I'd want to use the following stories from the science and technology realm as the basis for new dance works. If you've created something along these lines or know of others who have, I'd be delighted to hear about them....
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