Leaps and Strides

It's absolutely fantastic watching the advances the arts are making in their marketing schemes and tactics. For instance, a new series at the Guggenheim: "Livestream, Donald Byrd at Guggenheim's Works & Process" features choreography in process which a live audience can either view it in person at the Guggenheim itself, or viewers at home can view the performance as it streams live over the internet. This new reach of accessibility of dance should prove as great grounds for improvement in the disbursement and of the arts, and it should be interesting to see what sort of consequences are felt by the composition of live audiences that typically attend performances.

 Other dance institutions are incorporating similar technological venues. La la la Human Steps of Montreal created a series choreographed by Edouard Lock in which they recorded performances in a wooden studio that created an idea of commercialism through the finesse and great editing work while still maintaing the integrity of the choreography and the performance of the dancers. This experimentation with filming really created opportunities to accentuate certain elements of dance that may fall by the wayside in stage performances-another exciting element coming out of this video series.



La la la Human Steps: Amelia