June 20th, 2008
If I owe my career choices to anyone, I owe it to authors Spider & Jeanne Robinson and their novel Stardance. In fact, one of the most life-changing events in my life was spending a weekend with them on Gambier Island in Vancouver. Jeanne, who is both a dancer, a choreographer, and a zen roshi, […]
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May 12th, 2008
John Henry was a self-described “performing artist/educator” who realized he was dying of AIDS and decided to turn his preparation for death into a performance piece. With the collaborative help of Douglas Rosenberg and Ellen Bromberg, a dance/technology piece was born.
A large part of that piece dealt with John Henry’s experiences as a combat soldier […]
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February 20th, 2008
Before watching Company tonight, I caught the end of America’s Ballroom Challenge. I got a treat: Ilya Ifraimov and Nadia Goulina from New Jersey won the Show Dance segment with a very innovative robotic dance based on the Transformers.
They didn’t win the entire competition - Champions Andrei Gavriline and Elena Kryuchkova successfully defended their title […]
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January 30th, 2008
There’s been some rearranging here at B5Media, and I’m very happy to say that the powers-that-be have noticed that my blog tends to focus more on entertainment than arts & crafts. As a result, I’m back amidst the likes of Dancewatcher and Idol Stalker (two great blogs with more in-depth reviews of the performing arts […]
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January 17th, 2008
This just in! Chris Elam of Misnomer writes, “Tension no more - We won! Check out the OFFICIAL announcement here - http://www.ideablob.com/posts/131. Thanks for all the support! Read about it on our blog, and see what we’re building with this award.”
“Elam garnered the support of the ideablob community for his idea to establish an interactive […]
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January 1st, 2008
From one of my favorite blogs about a really, really neat dance company: Misnomer. Their site pushes the edge of what online presence can really do for a dance company, with things like a Remix section for video artists, the ubiquitous (but more engaging than most) blog, lots of videos, photos, and links to projects […]
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December 21st, 2007
I have a professional background in video, and I learned my skills at the cusp of the digital video revolution. This meant that while I started learning linear analog editing - basically three VCRs and a device that let two of them fade between to record on the third - I also learned digital non-linear […]
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